'Death' in the Bible

There he remained till Herod's death, that what the Lord had said through the Prophet might be fulfilled, "Out of Egypt I called My Son."

But after Herod's death an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, and said to him,

The people who were dwelling in darkness have seen a brilliant light; and on those who were dwelling in the region of the shadow of death, on them light has dawned."

Brother will betray brother to death, and father, child; and children will rise against their own parents and will put them to death.

And he would have liked to put him to death, but was afraid of the people, because they regarded John as a Prophet.

For God said, 'Honour thy father and thy mother'; and 'Let him who reviles father or mother be certainly put to death';

From this time Jesus began to explain to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer much cruelty from the Elders and the High Priests and the Scribes, and be put to death, and on the third day be raised to life again.

I solemnly tell you that some of those who are standing here will certainly not taste death till they have seen the Son of Man coming in His Kingdom."

they will put Him to death, but on the third day He will be raised to life again." And they were exceedingly distressed.

"We are going up to Jerusalem, and there the Son of Man will be betrayed to the High Priests and Scribes. They will condemn Him to death,

"He will put the wretches to a wretched death," was the reply, "and will entrust the vineyard to other vine-dressers who will render the produce to him at the vintage season."

"For this reason I am sending to you Prophets and wise men and Scribes. Some of them you will put to death--nay, crucify; some of them you will flog in your synagogues and chase from town to town;

"At that time they will deliver you up to punishment and will put you to death; and you will be objects of hatred to all the nations because you are called by my name.

and consulted how to get Jesus into their power by stratagem and put Him to death.

and He said to them, "My soul is crushed with anguish to the very point of death; wait here, and keep awake with me."

Meanwhile the High Priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death;

When morning came all the High Priests and the Elders of the people consulted together against Jesus to put Him to death;

and said, "I have sinned, in betraying to death one who is innocent." "What does that matter to us?" they replied; it is your business."

The High Priests, however, and the Elders urged the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to demand the death of Jesus.

the tombs opened; and many of God's people who were asleep in death awoke.

and besought Him with many entreaties. "My little daughter," he said, "is at the point of death: I pray you come and lay your hands upon her, that she may recover and live."

For Moses said, 'Honour thy father and thy mother' and again, 'He who curses father or mother, let him die the death.'

And now for the first time He told them, "The Son of Man must endure much suffering, and be rejected by the Elders and the High Priests and the Scribes, and be put to death, and after two days rise to life."

He went on to say, "In solemn truth I tell you that some of those who are standing here will certainly not taste death till they have seen the Kingdom of God already come in power."

for He was teaching His disciples, and telling them, "The Son of Man is to be betrayed into the hands of men, and they will put Him to death; and after being put to death, in three days He will rise to life again."

"See," He said, "we are going up to Jerusalem, where the Son of Man will be betrayed to the High Priests and the Scribes. They will condemn Him to death, and will hand Him over to the Gentiles;

they will insult Him in cruel sport, spit on Him, scourge Him, and put Him to death; but on the third day He will rise to life again."

What, therefore, will the owner of the vineyard do?" "He will come and put the vine-dressers to death," they said; "and will give the vineyard to others."

There were once seven brothers, the eldest of whom married a wife, but at his death left no family.

"Brother will betray brother to be killed, and fathers will betray children; and children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.

It was now two days before the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread, and the High Priests and Scribes were bent on finding how to seize Him by stratagem and put Him to death.

and He said to them, "My heart is oppressed with anguish to the very point of death: wait here and keep awake."

Meanwhile the High Priests and the entire Sanhedrin were endeavouring to get evidence against Jesus in order to put Him to death, but could find none;

You all heard his impious words. What is your judgement?" Then with one voice they condemned Him as deserving of death.

Dawning on those who now dwell in the darkness and shadow of death--To direct our feet into the path of peace."

To him it had been revealed by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death until he had seen the Lord's Anointed One.

Here the servant of a certain Captain, a man dear to his master, was ill and at the point of death;

and He said, "The Son of Man must suffer much cruelty, be rejected by the Elders and High Priests and Scribes, and be put to death, and on the third day be raised to life again."

I tell you truly that there are some of those who stand here who will certainly not taste death till they have seen the Kingdom of God."

They came in glory, and kept speaking about His death, which He was so soon to undergo in Jerusalem.

They will scourge Him and put Him to death, and on the third day He will rise to life again."

He will come and put these vine-dressers to death, and give the vineyard to others." "God forbid!" exclaimed the hearers.

You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, friends; and some of you they will put to death.

"Master," replied Peter, "with you I am ready to go both to prison and to death."

No, nor does Herod; for he has sent him back to us; and, you see, there is nothing he has done that deserves death.

A third time he appealed to them: "Why, what crime has the man committed? I have discovered in him nothing that deserves death. I will therefore give him a light punishment and release him."

They brought also two others, criminals, to put them to death with Him.

and how our High Priests and Rulers delivered Him up to be sentenced to death, and crucified Him.

Having heard that Jesus had come from Judaea to Galilee, he came to Him and begged Him to go down and cure his son; for he was at the point of death.

On this account then the Jews were all the more eager to put Him to death--because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also spoke of God as being in a special sense His Father, thus putting Himself on a level with God.

"In most solemn truth I tell you that he who listens to my teaching and believes Him who sent me, has the Life of the Ages, and does not come under judgement, but has passed over out of death into Life.

Now, in the Law, Moses has ordered us to stone such women to death. But what do you say?"

In most solemn truth I tell you that if any one shall have obeyed my teaching he shall in no case ever see death."

"Now," exclaimed the Jews, "we know that you are possessed by a demon. Abraham died, and so did the Prophets, and yet *you* say, 'If any one shall have obeyed my teaching, he shall in no case ever taste death.'

Jesus received the message and said, "This illness is not to end in death, but is to promote the glory of God, in order that the Son of God may be glorified by it."

Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought He referred to the rest taken in ordinary sleep.

and a considerable number of the Jews were with Martha and Mary, having come to express sympathy with them on the death of their brother.

So from that day forward they planned and schemed in order to put Him to death.

The High Priests, however, consulted together to put Lazarus also to death,

He said this to indicate the kind of death He would die.

"Take him yourselves," said Pilate, "and judge him by your Law." "We have no power," replied the Jews, "to put any man to death."

They said this that the words might be fulfilled in which Jesus predicted the kind of death He was to die.

This He said to indicate the kind of death by which that disciple would bring glory to God; and after speaking thus He said to him, "Follow me."

delivered up through God's settled purpose and foreknowledge--you by the hands of Gentiles have nailed to a cross and have put to death.

But God has raised Him to life, having terminated the throes of death, for in fact it was not possible for Him to be held fast by death.

The Prince of Life you put to death; but God has raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses as to that.

"We strictly forbad you to teach in that name--did we not?" he said. "And see, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and are trying to make us responsible for that man's death!"

The God of our forefathers has raised Jesus to life, whom you crucified and put to death.

"Thereupon he left Chaldaea and settled in Haran till after the death of his father, when God caused him to remove into this country where you now live.

"And we are witnesses as to all that He did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. But they even put Him to death, by crucifixion.

Without having found Him guilty of any capital offence they urged Pilate to have Him put to death;

I persecuted to death this new faith, continually binding both men and women and throwing them into prison;

and I discovered that the charge had to do with questions of their Law, but that he was accused of nothing for which he deserves death or imprisonment.

And that was how I acted in Jerusalem. Armed with authority received from the High Priests I shut up many of God's people in various prisons, and when they were about to be put to death I gave my vote against them.

and, having withdrawn, they talked to one another and said, "This man is doing nothing for which he deserves death or imprisonment."

In short, though knowing full well the sentence which God pronounces against actions such as theirs, as things which deserve death, they not only practise them, but even encourage and applaud others who do them.

who was surrendered to death because of the offences we had committed, and was raised to life because of the acquittal secured for us.

For if while we were hostile to God we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, it is still more certain that now that we are reconciled, we shall obtain salvation through Christ's life.

What follows? This comparison. Through one man sin entered into the world, and through sin death, and so death passed to all mankind in turn, in that all sinned.

Yet Death reigned as king from Adam to Moses even over those who had not sinned, as Adam did, against Law. And in Adam we have a type of Him whose coming was still future.

For if, through the transgression of the one individual, Death made use of the one individual to seize the sovereignty, all the more shall those who receive God's overflowing grace and gift of righteousness reign as kings in Life through the one individual, Jesus Christ.

in order that as sin has exercised kingly sway in inflicting death, so grace, too, may exercise kingly sway in bestowing a righteousness which results in the Life of the Ages through Jesus Christ our Lord.

And do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

Well, then, we by our baptism were buried with Him in death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from among the dead by the Father's glorious power, we also should live an entirely new life.

For since we have become one with Him by sharing in His death, we shall also be one with Him by sharing in His resurrection.

for he who has paid the penalty of death stands absolved from his sin.

Death has no longer any power over Him. For by the death which He died He became, once for all, dead in relation to sin; but by the life which He now lives He is alive in relation to God.

Do you not know that if you surrender yourselves as bondservants to obey any one, you become the bondservants of him whom you obey, whether the bondservants of Sin (with death as the result)

At that time, then, what benefit did you get from conduct which you now regard with shame? Why, such things finally result in death.

For the wages paid by Sin are death; but God's free gift is the Life of the Ages bestowed upon us in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For whilst we were under the thraldom of our earthly natures, sinful passions-- made sinful by the Law--were always being aroused to action in our bodily faculties that they might yield fruit to death.

and, as it turned out, the very Commandment which was to bring me life, brought me death.

For sin seized the advantage, and by means of the Commandment it completely deceived me, and also put me to death.

Did then a thing which is good become death to me? No, indeed, but sin did; so that through its bringing about death by means of what was good, it might be seen in its true light as sin, in order that by means of the Commandment the unspeakable sinfulness of sin might be plainly shown.

for the Spirit's Law-- telling of Life in Christ Jesus--has set me free from the Law that deals only with sin and death.

Because for the mind to be given up to earthly things means death; but for it to be given up to spiritual things means Life and peace.

For if you so live, death is near; but if, through being under the sway of the spirit, you are putting your old bodily habits to death, you will live.

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither the lower ranks of evil angels nor the higher, neither things present nor things future, nor the forces of nature,

"Lord, they have put Thy Prophets to death, and have overthrown Thy altars; and, now that I alone remain, they are thirsting for my blood"?

For if their having been cast aside has carried with it the reconciliation of the world, what will their being accepted again be but Life out of death?