Interestingly, one Bible reference work says that among the Jews, there was a belief that no hope was possible “for a person who had been dead for four days; by then the body showed recognizable decay, and the soul, which was thought to hover over the body for three days, had left. ”
क्योंकि तब तक उसका शरीर सड़ने लगता है और आत्मा, जो उनके मुताबिक तीन दिन तक लाश के ऊपर मँडराती रहती है, वह भी चौथे दिन शरीर को छोड़कर चली जाती है । ”