Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
and the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who have fallen asleep, arose,
New American Standard Bible
The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the
King James Version
And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
Holman Bible
The tombs were also opened
International Standard Version
tombs were opened, and many saints who had died were brought back to life.
A Conservative Version
and the sepulchers were opened, and many bodies of the sanctified who have been asleep arose.
American Standard Version
and the tombs were opened; and many bodies of the saints that had fallen asleep were raised;
Amplified
The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints (God’s people) who had fallen asleep [in death] were raised [to life];
An Understandable Version
Graves opened up and the bodies of many dead saints [i.e., God's holy people] were raised up [from the dead].
Anderson New Testament
and the sepulchers were opened, and many bodies of the saints that slept, arose.
Bible in Basic English
And the resting-places of the dead came open; and the bodies of a number of sleeping saints came to life;
Common New Testament
the tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised,
Daniel Mace New Testament
the graves opened, and the bodies of many saints who slept arose,
Darby Translation
and the tombs were opened; and many bodies of the saints fallen asleep arose,
Godbey New Testament
and the tombs were opened; and many bodies of the sleeping saints arose;
Goodspeed New Testament
the tombs opened, and many of the saints who had fallen asleep rose
John Wesley New Testament
and many bodies of holy men that slept were raised.
Julia Smith Translation
And the tombs were opened: and many bodies of the holy ones, having been set to sleep, were raised,
King James 2000
And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints that slept arose,
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised,
Modern King James verseion
and the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep arose,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and the stones did rent, and graves did open, and the bodies of many saints which slept, arose:
Moffatt New Testament
the tombs were opened, and a number of bodies of the saints who slept the sleep of death rose up ??53 they left the tombs after his resurrection and entered the holy city and appeared to a number of people.
Montgomery New Testament
the earth quaked; the rocks split; the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised.
NET Bible
And tombs were opened, and the bodies of many saints who had died were raised.
New Heart English Bible
The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;
Noyes New Testament
and the tombs were opened; and many bodies of holy men that slept, arose,
Sawyer New Testament
and the tombs were opened, and many bodies of saints that slept arose,
The Emphasized Bible
and, the tombs, were opened and, many bodies of the holy ones who had fallen asleep, arose, -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
and the sepulchres were opened; and many bodies of saints, who slept, arose;
Twentieth Century New Testament
the tombs opened, and the bodies of many of God's People who had fallen asleep rose,
Webster
And the graves were opened, and many bodies of saints who slept, arose,
Weymouth New Testament
the tombs opened; and many of God's people who were asleep in death awoke.
Williams New Testament
the tombs were opened, and many bodies of saints then sleeping in death rose
World English Bible
The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;
Worrell New Testament
and the tombs were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;
Worsley New Testament
and the graves opened, and many bodies of departed saints arose,
Themes
Body » Resurrection of » Saints at the time of the crucifixion
death » Scenes of » Death of jesus
The death of Christ » Accompanied by preternatural signs
Jesus Christ » History of » Crucified (just outside jerusalem)
Resurrection » Examples of » Saints at the time of the crucifixion
Resurrections » Resurrections, examples of » Saints at the time of the crucifixion
Topics
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 27:52
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jesus Dies On The Cross
51 and lo, the vail of the sanctuary was rent in two from top unto bottom, and the earth did quake, and the rocks were rent, 52 and the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who have fallen asleep, arose, 53 and having come forth out of the tombs after his rising, they went into the holy city, and appeared to many.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 15:20
And now, Christ hath risen out of the dead -- the first-fruits of those sleeping he became,
1 Thessalonians 4:14
for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God those asleep through Jesus he will bring with him,
Isaiah 25:8
He hath swallowed up death in victory, And wiped hath the Lord Jehovah, The tear from off all faces, And the reproach of His people He turneth aside from off all the earth, For Jehovah hath spoken.
Isaiah 26:19
Thy dead live -- My dead body they rise. Awake and sing, ye dwellers in the dust, For the dew of herbs is thy dew, And the land of Rephaim thou causest to fall.
Daniel 12:2
And the multitude of those sleeping in the dust of the ground do awake, some to life age-during, and some to reproaches -- to abhorrence age-during.
Hosea 13:14
From the hand of Sheol I do ransom them, From death I redeem them, Where is thy plague, O death? Where thy destruction, O Sheol? Repentance is hid from Mine eyes.
John 5:25-29
Verily, verily, I say to you -- There cometh an hour, and it now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those having heard shall live;
Acts 7:60
and having bowed the knees, he cried with a loud voice, 'Lord, mayest thou not lay to them this sin;' and this having said, he fell asleep.
1 Corinthians 11:30
Because of this, among you many are weak and sickly, and sleep do many;
1 Corinthians 15:51
lo, I tell you a secret; we indeed shall not all sleep, and we all shall be changed;
1 Thessalonians 5:10
who did die for us, that whether we wake -- whether we sleep -- together with him we may live;