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 swallowed up death in victory, and lord LORD will wipe away tears from off all faces. And he will take away the reproach of his people from off all the earth. For LORD has spoken it.

Thy dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, ye who dwell in the dust, for thy dew is [as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death. O death, where are thy plagues? O Sheol, where is thy sting? Repentance shall be hid from my eyes.

Truly, truly, I say to you, that an hour comes, 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. He became the first fruit of those who are asleep.

Slept

And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Because of this many are weak and sickly among you, and a considerable sleep.

Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will actually not all sleep, but we will all be transformed,

For if we believe that Jesus died and arose, so also those who became asleep through Jesus, God will bring with him.

So that, whether we are awake or sleep, we should live together with him.

General references

Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid. Be ye very desolate, says LORD.

And the curtain of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom.

And having answered, he said to them, I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out.