48 Bible Verses about Jesus Death
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There they crucified him, and two others with him--one on each side, and Jesus between them.
For the death that he died was a death to sin, once and for all. But the Life that he now lives, he lives for God.
The Roman Officer, who was standing facing Jesus, on seeing the way in which he expired, exclaimed: "This man must indeed have been 'God's Son'!"
Meanwhile near the cross of Jesus were standing his mother and his mother's sister, as well as Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary of Magdala.
And that he died for all, so that the living should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died and rose for them.
For to me life is Christ, and death is gain.
He, I say, in accordance with God's definite plan and with his previous knowledge, was betrayed, and you, by the hands of lawless men, nailed him to a cross and put him to death.
For, as we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that God will bring, with Jesus, those who through him have passed to their rest.
After mid-day a darkness came over all the country, lasting till three in the afternoon.
Jesus said this to show the death by which Peter was to honor God, and then he added: "Follow me."
For through your union with Christ Jesus, the Law of the life- giving Spirit has set you free from the Law of Sin and Death.
We always bear on our bodies the marks of the death that Jesus died, so that the Life also of Jesus may be exhibited in our bodies.
"Even if I must die with you," Peter exclaimed, "I shall never disown you!" All the disciples spoke in the same way.
The very purpose for which Christ died and came back to life was this--that he might be Lord over both the dead and the living.
"You know that in two days time the Festival of the Passover will be here; and that the Son of Man is to be given up to be crucified."
For at the very beginning of my teaching I gave you the account which I had myself received-that Christ died for our sins (as the Scriptures had foretold),
The wages of Sin are Death, but the gift of God is Immortal Life, through union with Christ Jesus, our Lord.
For Jesus 'was given up to death to atone for our offences,' and was raised to life that we might be pronounced righteous.
At that time Jesus Christ began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem, and undergo much suffering at the hands of the Councillors, and Chief Priests, and Teachers of the Law, and be put to death, and rise on the third day.
If we have become united with him by the act symbolic of his death, surely we shall also become united with him by the act symbolic of his resurrection.
That he was buried, that on the third day he was raised (as the Scriptures had foretold),
For Christ has brought Law to an end, so that righteousness may be obtained by every one who believes in him.
Keep before your mind Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, a descendant of David, as told in the Good News entrusted to me;
For, as through union with Adam all men die, so through union with the Christ will all be made to live.
The last enemy to be overthrown is death;
And, when Jesus heard it, he said: "This illness is not to end in death, but is to redound to the honor of God, in order that the Son of God may be honored through it."
"I am the Resurrection and the Life," said Jesus. "He that believes in me shall live, though he die;
Consequently, through sharing his death in our baptism, we were buried with him; that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by a manifestation of the Father's power, so we also may live a new Life.
What our eyes do see is Jesus, who was made for a while lower than angels, now, because of his sufferings and death, crowned with glory and honour; so that his tasting the bitterness of death should, in God's loving-kindness, be on behalf of all mankind.
At daybreak all the Chief Priests and the Councillors of the Nation consulted together against Jesus, to bring about his death.
And they, leaving their tombs, went, after the resurrection of Jesus, into the Holy City, and appeared to many people.
For in baptism you were buried with Christ; and in baptism you were also raised to Life with him, through your faith in the omnipotence of God, who raised him from the dead.
So the report spread among the Brethren that that disciple was not to die; yet Jesus did not say that he was not to die, but said "If it is my will that he should wait till I come, what has that to do with you?"
But God released him from the pangs of death and raised him to life, it being impossible for death to retain its hold upon him.
It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not die until he had seen the Lord's Christ.
But Jesus meant that he was dead; they, however, supposed that he was speaking of natural sleep.
For we know that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with him, and will bring us, with you, into his presence.
Afterwards, when he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the passage of Scripture, and the words which Jesus had spoken.
At the place where Jesus had been crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a newly-made tomb in which no one had ever been laid.
The Roman Captain, and the men with him who were watching Jesus, on seeing the earthquake and all that was happening, became greatly frightened and exclaimed: "This must indeed have been God's Son!"
And how the Chief Priests and our leading men gave him up to be sentenced to death, and afterwards crucified him.
When Jesus had received the wine, he exclaimed: "All is finished!" Then, bowing his head, he resigned his spirit to God.
Whenever such a Covenant as a will is in question, the death of the testator must of necessity be alleged.
