'Dead' in the Bible

And when he had gone in, he said to them, Why are you making such a noise and weeping? The child is not dead, but sleeping.

And king Herod had news of him, because his name was on the lips of all; and he said, John the Baptist has come back from the dead, and for this reason these powers are working in him.

But Herod, when he had news of it, said, John, whom I put to death, has come back from the dead.

And teaching them, he said that the Son of man would have to undergo much, and be hated by those in authority, and the chief priests, and the scribes, and be put to death, and after three days come back from the dead.

And while they were coming down from the mountain, he gave them orders not to give word to any man of the things they had seen, till the Son of man had come back from the dead.

And they kept the saying, questioning among themselves what the coming back from the dead might be.

And after crying out and shaking him violently, it came out: and the child became like one dead; so that most of them said, He is dead.

For he was giving his disciples teaching, and saying to them, The Son of man is given up into the hands of men, and they will put him to death; and when he is dead, after three days he will come back from the dead.

And they will make sport of him, and put shame on him, and give him cruel blows, and will put him to death; and after three days he will come back from the dead.

And when they were going by in the morning, they saw the fig-tree dead from the roots.

And Peter, having a memory of it, said to him, Master, see, the tree which was cursed by you is dead.

And there came to him Sadducees, who say there is no coming back from the dead; and they put a question to him, saying,

In the future life, when they come back from the dead, whose wife will she be? for the seven had her for a wife.

When they come back from the dead, they do not get married, but are like the angels in heaven.

But as to the dead coming back to life; have you not seen in the book of Moses, about the burning thorn-tree, how God said to him, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living: you are greatly in error.

But after I have come back from the dead, I will go before you into Galilee.

And they took him to the place named Golgotha, which is, Dead Man's Head.

And Pilate was surprised that he was dead; and, sending for the captain, he put a question to see if he had been dead for long.

And he got a linen cloth and, taking him down, put the linen cloth round him, and put him in a place for the dead which had been cut out of a rock; and a stone was rolled against the door.

And he said to them, Do not be troubled: you are looking for Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been put to death on the cross; he has come back from the dead; he is not here: see, the place where they put him!

Now when he came back from the dead early on the first day of the week, he went first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had sent out seven evil spirits.

And later he was seen by the eleven themselves while they were taking food; and he said sharp words to them because they had no faith and their hearts were hard, and because they had no belief in those who had seen him after he had come back from the dead.

And it came about, on another Sabbath, that he went into the Synagogue and was teaching there. And a man was there whose right hand was dead.

But he had knowledge of their thoughts; and he said to the man whose hand was dead, Get up and come into the middle. And he got up and came forward.

Now when he came near the door of the town, a dead man was being taken out, the only son of his mother, who was a widow: and a great number of people from the town were with her.

And he came near, and put his hand on the stretcher where the dead man was: and those who were moving it came to a stop. And he said, Young man, I say to you, Get up.

And the dead man got up, and words came from his lips. And he gave him to his mother.

And answering them he said, Go back and give news to John of what you have seen, and the things which have come to your ears; the blind now see, those who had no power in their legs are walking, lepers are made clean, those who had no hearing now have their ears open, dead men come to life again, and the poor have the good news given to them.

And some went on the rock, and when it came up it became dry and dead because it had no water.

And when he had come to the land, there came to him a certain man from the town who had evil spirits; and for a long time he had had no clothing on, and was not living in a house but in the place of the dead.

While he was still talking, someone came from the house of the ruler of the Synagogue, saying, Your daughter is dead; do not go on troubling the Master.

And all the people were weeping and crying for her; but he said, Do not be sad, for she is not dead, but sleeping.

And they were laughing at him, being certain that she was dead.

Now Herod the king had news of all these things: and he was in doubt, because it was said by some people that John had come back from the dead;

But he said to him, Let the dead take care of their dead; it is for you to go and give news of the kingdom of God.

And Jesus, answering him, said, A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he got into the hands of thieves, who took his clothing and gave him cruel blows, and when they went away, he was half dead.

A curse is on you! for you are like the resting-places of dead men, which are not seen, and men go walking over them without knowledge of it.

And you will have a blessing, because they will not be able to give you any payment, and you will get your reward when the upright come back from the dead.

For this, my son, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away from me, and has come back. And they were full of joy.

But it was right to be glad and to have a feast; for this your brother, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away and has come back.

And he said, No, father Abraham, but if someone went to them from the dead, their hearts would be changed.

And he said to him, If they will not give attention to Moses and the prophets, they will not be moved even if someone comes back from the dead.

And some of the Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no coming back from the dead; and they said to him,

When they come back from the dead, whose wife will she be? for all the seven had her.

But those to whom is given the reward of the world to come, and to come back from the dead, have no wives, and are not married;

And death has no more power over them, for they are equal to the angels, and are sons of God, being of those who will come back from the dead.

But even Moses made it clear that the dead come back to life, saying, in the story of the burning thorn-tree, The Lord, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

Now he is not the God of the dead but of the living: for all men are living to him.

And he took it down, and folding it in a linen cloth, he put it in a place cut in the rock for a dead body; and no one had ever been put in it.

And while their faces were bent down to the earth in fear, these said to them, Why are you looking for the living among the dead?

So when he had come back again from the dead, the memory of these words came back to the disciples, and they had faith in the holy Writings and in the word which Jesus had said.

The man said, Sir, come down before my boy is dead.

In the same way, as the Father gives life to the dead, even so the Son gives life to those to whom he is pleased to give it.

Truly I say to you, The time is coming, it has even now come, when the voice of the Son of God will come to the ears of the dead, and those hearing it will have life.

Do not be surprised at this: for the time is coming when his voice will come to all who are in the place of the dead,

No man is able to come to me if the Father who sent me does not give him the desire to come: and I will take him up from the dead on the last day.

Your fathers took the manna in the waste land--and they are dead.

He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink has eternal life: and I will take him up from the dead at the last day.

This is the bread which has come down from heaven. It is not like the food which your fathers had: they took of the manna, and are dead; but he who takes this bread for food will have life for ever.

The Jews said to him, Now we are certain that you have an evil spirit. Abraham is dead, and the prophets are dead; and you say, If a man keeps my word he will never see death.

Are you greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? and the prophets are dead: who do you say that you are?

Then Jesus said to them clearly, Lazarus is dead.

Then Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you had been here my brother would not be dead.

Martha said to him, I am certain that he will come to life again when all come back from the dead at the last day.

Jesus said to her, I am myself that day and that life; he who has faith in me will have life even if he is dead;

Then the Jews who were with her in the house, comforting her, when they saw Mary get up quickly and go out, went after her in the belief that she was going to the place of the dead and would be weeping there.

When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she went down at his feet, saying, Lord, if you had been here my brother would not be dead.

So Jesus, deeply troubled in heart, came to the place of the dead. It was a hole in the rock, and a stone was over the opening.

Jesus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said, Lord, by this time the body will be smelling, for he has been dead four days.

And he who was dead came out, with linen bands folded tightly about his hands and feet, and a cloth about his face. Jesus said to them, Make him free and let him go.

Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had made to come back from the dead.

Then a great number of the Jews had news that he was there: and they came, not only because of Jesus, but so that they might see Lazarus who had been dead and to whom he had given life.

Now the people who were with him when his voice came to Lazarus in the place of the dead, and gave him life again, had been talking about it.

If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.

And he went out with his cross on him to the place which is named Dead Man's Head (in Hebrew, Golgotha):

But when they came to Jesus, they saw that he was dead by this time, and so his legs were not broken;

Then they took the body of Jesus, folding linen about it with the spices, as is the way of the Jews when they put the dead to rest.

Now there was a garden near the cross, and in the garden a new place for the dead in which no man had ever been put.

Then she went running to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple who was loved by Jesus, and said to them, They have taken away the Lord out of the place of the dead and we have no knowledge where they have put him.

So Peter and the other disciple went out to the place of the dead.

For at that time they had no knowledge that the Writings said that he would have to come again from the dead.

Now this was the third time that Jesus let himself be seen by the disciples after he had come back from the dead.

He, having knowledge of the future, was talking of the coming again of Christ from the dead, that he was not kept in hell and his body did not see destruction.

And put to death the Lord of life; whom God gave back from the dead; of which fact we are witnesses.

Being greatly troubled because they were teaching the people and preaching Jesus as an example of the coming back from the dead.

Take note, all of you, and all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you put to death on the cross, whom God gave back from the dead, even through him is this man now before you completely well.

And with great power the Apostles gave witness of the coming back of the Lord Jesus from the dead; and grace was on them all.

And straight away she went down at his feet, and her life went from her: and the young men came in and saw her dead, and they took her out and put her in the earth with her husband.

Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and went into Haran; and from there, when his father was dead, he was guided by God into this land, where you are living now:

Not by all the people, but by witnesses marked out before by God, even by us, who took food and drink with him after he came back from the dead.

And he gave us orders to give news of this to the people, and to give public witness that this is he whom God has made judge of the living and the dead.

And when they had done all the things said in the Writings about him, they took him down from the tree, and put him in the place of the dead.

But God gave him back from the dead:

And about his coming back from the dead, never again to go to destruction, he has said these words, I will give you the holy and certain mercies of David.

But some Jews came to that place from Antioch and Iconium, and got control over the people; and after stoning Paul, they had him pulled out of the town, taking him for dead.

And some of those who were supporters of the theories of the Epicureans and the Stoics, had a meeting with him. And some said, What is this talker of foolish words saying? And others, He seems to be a preacher of strange gods: because he was preaching of Jesus and his coming back from the dead.

Because a day has been fixed in which all the world will be judged in righteousness by the man who has been marked out by him for this work; of which he has given a sign to all men by giving him back from the dead.

And a certain young man named Eutychus, who was seated in the window, went into a deep sleep; and while Paul went on talking, being overcome by sleep, he had a fall from the third floor, and was taken up dead.

But when Paul saw that half of them were Sadducees and the rest Pharisees, he said in the Sanhedrin, Brothers, I am a Pharisee, and the son of Pharisees: I am here to be judged on the question of the hope of the coming back from the dead.