Second Kings 13:21 seems to presuppose power still in the bones of Elisha, and other passages may imply power through contact, as in Luke 8:46; Acts 5:15; 19:12. Cf. also Gaiser, Healing, 166. The question of faith in God aside, there do remain serious questions of how many of the purported relics actually belonged to the saints to whom they were attributed.
