From Contra Celsum, written 248 CE by Origen, early church father, to counter a pagan's argument against Christianity, link.

The Jew continues his address to those of his countrymen who are converts, as follows: 
how many others are there(?). . .the question is, whether any one who was really dead ever rose with a veritable body. 

Or do you imagine the statements of others not only to be myths, but to have the appearance of such, while you have discovered a becoming and credible termination to your drama in the voice from the cross, when he breathed his last, and in the earthquake and the darkness? 

That while alive he was of no assistance to himself, but that when dead he rose again, and showed the marks of his punishment, and how his hands were pierced with nails:  who beheld this?  A half-frantic woman, as you state, and some other one, perhaps, of those who were engaged in the same system of delusion, who had either dreamed so, owing to a peculiar state of mind, or under the influence of a wandering imagination had formed to himself an appearance according to his own wishes. which has been the case with numberless individuals; or, which is most probable, one who desired to impress others with this portent, and by such a falsehood to furnish an occasion to impostors like himself.”

Origen replies -- and he doesn't dispute all those other dying and resurrected gods!  Origen speaks:
But since the Jew says that these histories of the alleged descent of heroes to Hades, and of their return thence, are juggling impositions, maintaining that these heroes disappeared for a certain time, and secretly withdrew themselves from the sight of all men, and gave themselves out afterwards as having returned from Hades,--for such is the meaning which his words seem to convey respecting the Odrysian Orpheus, and the Thessalian Protesilaus, and the Taenarian Hercules, and Theseus also,--let us endeavor to show that the account of Jesus being raised from the dead cannot possibly be compared to these.
Recall also that Elijah raised a boy from the dead (1 Kings 17)-- and you don't worship that boy.

Elisha also resurrected a dead boy (2 Kings 4), and a man came back to life touching the dead Elisha's bones (2 Kings 13).

How come you aren't worshiping those boys and that man -- or perhaps Elijah or Elisha?

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And everything that Sarah tells you, listen to her voice. Bereshit (Genesis) 21:12
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