Matthew 27:52

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Summary

Matthew 27:52

And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,

Many

1 Corinthians 15:20

Slept

1 Thessalonians 5:10

General references

Jeremiah 2:12

Mark 15:38

Luke 19:40

Bible References

Many

He will swallow up death for all time,
And the Lord God will wipe tears away from all faces,
And He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth;
For the Lord has spoken.

Your dead will live;

Their corpses will rise.

You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy,
For your dew is as the dew of the dawn,
And the earth will give birth to the departed spirits.

Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol?
Shall I redeem them from death?

O Death, where are your thorns?

O Sheol, where is your sting?

Compassion will be hidden from My sight.

Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep.

Slept

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt.

For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number

sleep.

Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.

General references

“Be appalled, O heavens, at this,
And shudder, be very desolate,” declares the Lord.

And the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.

But Jesus answered, “I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!”