The King of the universe will raise us up to an everlasting renewal of life, because we have died for his laws. 538 One cannot but choose to die at the hands of men and to cherish the hope that God gives of being raised again by him. 539
Catechism number 993
The Pharisees and many of the Lord's contemporaries hoped for the resurrection. Jesus teaches it firmly. To the Sadducees who deny it he answers, "Is not this why you are wrong, that you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God?"540 Faith in the resurrection rests on faith in God who "is not God of the dead, but of the living."541