Elijah and Elisha raised the dead
Consider whether it is not very blindly that Celsus’s Jew, as though it were impossible for anyone to rise from the dead with his very body, says: “But this is what must be examined: whether anyone who really died ever rose with his very body.” The Jew would not have said this if he believed what is recorded in the third and fourth books of Kingdoms about children, one of whom Elijah raised and the other Elisha (1 Kings 17:17–24; 2 Kings 4:18–37).
And this, I think, is also why Jesus came to dwell among no other nation than the Jews, who had grown used to marvels: so that, by setting what they already believed beside what was done by him and recorded about him, they might accept that he, around whom greater things took place and by whom more wonderful things were accomplished, was greater than all those men.
Greek
Πρόσχες δὲ εἰ μὴ πάνυ τυφλῶς ὁ παρὰ τῷ Κέλσῳ Ἰουδαῖος ὡς ἀδυνάτου ὄντος τοῦ ἀνίστασθαί τινα ἐκ νεκρῶν αὐτῷ σώματί φησιν· ἀλλ᾿ ἐκεῖνο σκεπτέον. εἴ τις ἀληθῶς ἀποθανὼν ἀνέστη ποτὲ αὐτῷ σώματι. οὐκ ἂν γὰρ εἶπεν ὁ Ἰουδαῖος ταῦτα. πιστεύων τοῖς ἐν τῇ τρίτῃ τῶν Βασιλειῶν ἀναγεγραμμένοις καὶ τῇ τετάρτῃ περὶ παιδαρίων, ὧν τὸ μὲν ἕτερον Ἠλίας ἀνέστησεν τὸ δὲ λοιπὸν ὁ Ἐλισσαῖος. διὰ τοῦτο δ᾿ οἶμαι καὶ τὸν Ἰησοῦν οὐκ ἄλλῳ ἔθνει ἢ Ἰουδαίοις ἐπιδεδημηκέναι, τοῖς ἐθάσι γενομένοις πρὸς τὰ παράδοξα. τῇ παραθέσει τῶν πεπιστευμένων πρὸς τὰ ὑπ᾿ αὐτοῦ γενόμενα καὶ περὶ αὐτοῦ ἱστορούμενα ὅπως παραδέξωνται ὅτι οὗτος, περὶ ὃν γέγονε μείζονα καὶ ὑφ᾿ οὗ ἐπετελέσθη παραδοξότερα, πάντων ἐκείνων μείζων ἦν.