'Dead' in the Bible
saying, "Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the life of the child are dead."
But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead!"
he said, "Go away, because the girl is not dead, but is sleeping." And they ridiculed him.
Heal those who are sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, expel demons. Freely you have received; freely give.
the blind receive sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised, and the poor have good news announced to [them].
and he said to his servants, "This is John the Baptist! He has been raised from the dead, and for this [reason] miraculous powers are at work in him."
And [as] they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them saying, "Tell no one the vision until the Son of Man is raised from the dead."
Now concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, who said,
"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!"
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees--hypocrites!--because you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean!
Therefore give orders that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples come [and] steal him and tell the people, 'He has been raised from the dead,' and the last deception will be worse than the first."
And the guards trembled from the fear of him and became like dead men.
And go quickly, tell his disciples, 'He has been raised from the dead, and behold, he is going ahead of you into Galilee. You will see him there.' Behold, I have told you."
And [when he] entered, he said to them, "Why are you agitated and weeping? The child is not dead, but is sleeping."
And King Herod heard [it], because his name had become known. And they were saying, "John, the one who baptizes, has been raised from the dead, and because of this these miraculous powers are at work in him."
And [as] they were coming down from the mountain, he ordered them that they should tell no one [the things] that they had seen, except when the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
And they kept the matter to themselves, discussing what this rising from the dead {meant}.
And it came out, screaming and convulsing [him] greatly, and he became as if [he were] dead, so that most [of them] said, "He has died!"
For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
Now concerning the dead, that they are raised, have you not read in the book of Moses {in the passage about the bush} how God spoke to him, saying, 'I [am] the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob'?
He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are very much mistaken!"
And Pilate was surprised that he was already dead, and summoning the centurion, asked him whether he had died already.
And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and he gave him to his mother.
And he answered [and] said to them, "Go [and] tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear; the dead are raised, the poor have good news announced to [them].
[While] he was still speaking, someone came from the synagogue ruler's [house], saying, "Your daughter is dead! Trouble the Teacher no longer!"
And they were all weeping and mourning for her, but he said, "Do not weep! For she is not dead, but is sleeping."
And they began laughing at him, [because they] knew that she was dead.
Now Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was happening, and he was greatly perplexed, because it was said by some that John has been raised from the dead,
But he said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead! But you go [and] proclaim the kingdom of God."
And Jesus replied [and] said, "A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who both stripped him and beat [him]. [After] inflicting blows on [him], they went away, leaving [him] half dead.
because this son of mine was dead, and is alive again! He was lost and is found!' And they began to celebrate.
But it was necessary to celebrate and to rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead, and is alive, and was lost, and is found!'"
And he said, 'No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent!'
But he said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone rises from the dead.'"
And they answered [and] said to him, "Where, Lord?" So he said to them, "Where the dead body [is], there also the vultures will be gathered."
but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and [to] the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage,
But that the dead are raised, even Moses revealed in [the passage about] the bush, when he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and [the] God of Isaac and [the] God of Jacob.
Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him!"
And [as] they were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, they said to them, "Why are you looking for the living among the dead?
and said to them, "Thus it is written [that] the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day,
So when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.
For just as the Father raises the dead and makes [them] alive, thus also the Son makes alive whomever he wishes.
"Truly, truly I say to you, that an hour is coming--and now is [here]--when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and the ones who hear will live.
Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.
Now a large crowd of Jews found out that he was there, and they came, not only because of Jesus, but so that they could see Lazarus also, whom he raised from the dead.
So the crowd who was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead were continuing to testify.
But [when they] came to Jesus, after they saw he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
(For they did not yet know the scripture that it was necessary for him to rise from the dead.)
This [was] now [the] third [time] Jesus was revealed to the disciples [after he] had been raised from the dead.
And you killed the originator of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses!
greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead--by him this man stands before you healthy!
And immediately she fell down at his feet and died. So [when] the young men came in, they found her dead, and carried [her] out [and] buried [her] with her husband.
not to all the people but to us who had been chosen beforehand by God [as] witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify solemnly that this one is the one appointed by God [as] judge of the living and of the dead.
But that he has raised him from the dead, no more going to return to decay, he has spoken in this way: 'I will give you the reliable divine decrees of David.'
But Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium, and [when they] had won over the crowds and stoned Paul, they dragged [him] outside the city, thinking he was dead.
explaining and demonstrating that it was necessary [for] the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and [saying], "This Jesus whom I am proclaiming to you is the Christ."
because he has set a day on which he is going to judge the world in righteousness by the man who he has appointed, having provided proof to everyone [by] raising him from the dead."
Now [when they] heard about the resurrection of the dead, [some] scoffed, but [others] said, "We will hear you about this again also."
And a certain young man {named} Eutychus who was sitting in the window was sinking into a deep sleep [while] Paul was conversing at length. Being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.
Now [when] Paul realized that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he shouted out in the Sanhedrin, "Men [and] brothers! I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees! I am being judged concerning the hope and the resurrection of the dead!"
other than concerning this one declaration that I shouted [while] standing there before them: 'I am being judged before you today concerning the resurrection of the dead!'"
but they had some issues with him concerning their own religion, and concerning a certain Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul claimed to be alive.
Why is it thought incredible by you [people] that God raises the dead?
that the Christ was to suffer [and] that [as] the first of the resurrection from the dead, he was going to proclaim light both to the people and to the Gentiles."
But they were expecting [that] he was going to swell up or suddenly to fall down dead. So [after] they had waited for a long [time] and saw nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds [and] began saying [that] he was a god.
who was declared Son of God in power according to {the Holy Spirit} by the resurrection from the dead of Jesus Christ our Lord,
(just as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations") before God, in whom he believed, the one who makes the dead alive and who calls the things that are not as [though] they are,
And not being weak in faith, he considered his own body as good as dead, [because he] was approximately a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb.
but also for the sake of us to whom it is going to be credited, to those who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may live {a new way of life}.
knowing that Christ, [because he] has been raised from the dead, is going to die no more, death no longer being master over him.
So also you, consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
and do not present your members to sin [as] instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your members to God [as] instruments of righteousness.
So then, my brothers, you also were brought to death with respect to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all [kinds of] covetousness. For apart from the law, sin [is] dead.
But if Christ [is] in you, the body [is] dead because of sin, but the Spirit [is] life because of righteousness.
And if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also make alive your mortal bodies through his Spirit who lives in you.
or "Who will descend into the abyss?" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).
that if you confess with your mouth "Jesus [is] Lord" and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
For if their rejection [means] the reconciliation of the world, what [will] their acceptance [mean] except life from the dead?
For Christ died and became alive again for this [reason], in order that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
Now if Christ is preached as raised up from the dead, how do some among you say that [there] is no resurrection of the dead?
But if [there] is no resurrection of the dead, Christ has not been raised [either].
And also we are found [to be] false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if after all, then, the dead are not raised.
For if the dead are not raised, Christ has not been raised [either].
But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.
For since through a man [came] death, also through a man [came] the resurrection of the dead.
Otherwise, why do they do [it], those who are being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why indeed are they being baptized on behalf of them?
If according to a human perspective I fought wild beasts at Ephesus, what benefit [is it] to me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? And with what sort of body do they come?"
Thus also [is] the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruptibility.
in a moment, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
But [we] ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we would not be putting confidence in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,
Paul, an apostle not from men nor by men but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead,
which he has worked in Christ, raising him from the dead and seating [him] at his right hand in the heavenly [places],
And you, {although you were dead} in your trespasses and sins,
and we being dead in trespasses, he made [us] alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved),
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