'Death' in the Bible

They appeared in glory and were speaking of His death, which He was about to accomplish in Jerusalem.

for the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.”] And they journeyed on to another village.

He said to another, “Follow Me [accepting Me as Master and Teacher].” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

A curse is on you! for you make resting-places for the bodies of the prophets, but your fathers put them to death.

So you are witnesses and give approval to the work of your fathers; for they put them to death and you make their last resting-places.

For this reason also the wisdom of God said [in the Scriptures], ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will put to death and some they will persecute,

From the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who was put to death between the altar and the Temple. Yes, I say to you, It will come on this generation.

And I say to you, my friends, Have no fear of those who may put the body to death, and are able to do no more than that.

But I will show you the One to fear: Fear Him who has authority to throw people into hell after death. Yes, I say to you, this is the One to fear!

At that time, certain Pharisees came to him and said, Go away from this place, because Herod's purpose is to put you to death.

But I have to go on my way today and tomorrow and the third day, for it is not right for a prophet to come to his death outside Jerusalem.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones to death those who have been sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you people were unwilling!

"Then he came to his senses and said, "How many of my father's hired men have more food than they can eat, and here I am starving to death!

And get the fat young ox and put it to death, and let us have a feast, and be glad.

And he said to him, Your brother has come; and your father has had the young ox put to death because he has come back safely.

But when this your son came, who has been wasting your property with bad women, you put to death the fat young ox for him.

You have knowledge of what the law says: Do not be untrue to your wife, Do not put anyone to death, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Give honour to your father and mother.

And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again.

And as for those who were against me, who would not have me for their ruler, let them come here, and be put to death before me.

He was teaching day after day in the temple [porches and courts]; but the chief priests and scribes and the leading men among the people were seeking [a way] to put Him to death,

But if we say, "From humans,' all the people will stone us to death, because they are convinced that John was a prophet."

But when the workmen saw him, they said to one another, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property: let us put him to death and the heritage will be ours.

And driving him out of the garden they put him to death. Now what will the lord do to these workmen?

He will come and put these vine-dressers to death, and give the vineyard to others." "God forbid!" exclaimed the hearers.

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 [as for the fact] that the dead are raised [from death], even Moses showed, in the passage about the burning bush, when he calls the Lord the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.

And they will be put to death with the sword, and will be taken as prisoners into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be crushed under the feet of the Gentiles, till the times of the Gentiles are complete.

The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a way to put Him to death, because they were afraid of the people.

And the day of unleavened bread came, when the Passover lamb is put to death.

And he said, I have had a great desire to keep this Passover with you before I come to my death;

And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison, and to death.

No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him.

But with loud voices they said all together, Put this man to death, and make Barabbas free.

And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath he done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let him go.

But they went on crying out loudly, Let him be put to death on the cross. And they had their way.

And in answer to their request, he let that man go free who had been in prison for acting against the government and causing death, and Jesus he gave up to their pleasure.

And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.

Now the people stood by, watching; but even the rulers ridiculed and sneered at Him, saying, “He saved others [from death]; let Him save Himself if He is the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed) of God, His Chosen One.”

and sarcastically saying, “If you are [really] the King of the Jews, save Yourself [from death]!”

One of the criminals who had been hanged [on a cross beside Him] kept hurling abuse at Him, saying, “Are You not the Christ? Save Yourself and us [from death]!”

saying that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise [from death to life].”

And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.

And he said to them, So it is in the Writings that the Christ would undergo death, and come back to life again on the third day;

When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.

For this cause the Jews had an even greater desire to put Jesus to death, because not only did he not keep the Sabbath but he said God was his Father, so making himself equal with God.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

The bread which comes from heaven is such bread that a man may take it for food and never see death.

After this, Jesus went from place to place in Galilee. He did not go about in Judaea, because the Jews were looking for a chance to put him to death.

Did not Moses give you the law? Even so, not one of you keeps the law. Why have you a desire to put me to death?

The people said in answer, You have an evil spirit: who has any desire to put you to death?

Then some of the people of Jerusalem said, Is not this the man whose death is desired?

Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women to death. What do you say?"

Then he said to them again, I am going away and you will be looking for me, but death will overtake you in your sins. It is not possible for you to come where I am going.

For this reason I said to you that death will overtake you in your sins: for if you have not faith that I am he, death will come to you while you are in your sins.

I am conscious that you are Abraham's seed; but you have a desire to put me to death because my word has no place in you.

But now you have a desire to put me to death, a man who has said to you what is true, as I had it from God: Abraham did not do that.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.

Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.

The thief comes only to take the sheep and to put them to death: he comes for their destruction: I have come so that they may have life and have it in greater measure.

Again the Jewish leaders picked up stones to stone him to death.

When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.

The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death, and you are going back there again?"

Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.

Then Thomas, who was named Didymus, said to the other disciples, Let us go so that we may be with him in death.

and a considerable number of the Jews were with Martha and Mary, having come to express sympathy with them on the death of their brother.

And no one who is living and has faith in me will ever see death. Is this your faith?

But some of them said, This man, who made open the eyes of the blind man, was he not able to keep his friend from death?

You do not see that it is in your interest for one man to be put to death for the people, so that all the nation may not come to destruction.

He did not say this of himself, but being the high priest that year he said, as a prophet, that Jesus would be put to death for the nation;

Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.

Then Jesus said, Let her be. Let her keep what she has for the day of my death.

But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;

Truly I say to you, If a seed of grain does not go into the earth and come to an end, it is still a seed and no more; but through its death it gives much fruit.

This he said, signifying what death he should die.

They will put you out of the Synagogues: yes, the time is coming when whoever puts you to death will have the belief that he is doing God's pleasure.

It was Caiaphas who had said to the Jews that it was in their interest for one man to be put to death for the people.

Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death:

That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spake, signifying what death he should die.

And the Jews made answer, We have a law, and by that law it is right for him to be put to death because he said he was the Son of God.

Then Pilate said to him, You say nothing to me? is it not clear to you that I have power to let you go free and power to put you to death on the cross?

Then they gave a loud cry, Away with him! away with him! to the cross! Pilate said to them, Am I to put your King to death on the cross? The chief priests said in answer, We have no king but Caesar.

So then he gave him up to them to be put to death on the cross. And they took Jesus away;

The writing was seen by a number of the Jews, for the place where Jesus was put to death on the cross was near the town; and the writing was in Hebrew and Latin and Greek.

So the men of the army came, and the legs of the first were broken and then of the other who was put to death on the cross with Jesus:

This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me.

So this saying went about among the brothers that this disciple would not undergo death: Jesus, however, did not say that he would not undergo death, but, If it is my desire for him to be here till I come back, what is that to you?

And to whom he gave clear and certain signs that he was living, after his death; for he was seen by them for forty days, and gave them teaching about the kingdom of God:

Starting from the baptism of John till he went up from us, one will have to be a witness with us of his coming back from death.

this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death.

Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.

‘For You will not forsake me and abandon my soul to Hades (the realm of the dead),Nor let Your Holy One undergo decay [after death].

My brothers, I may say to you openly that David came to his death, and was put in the earth, and his resting-place is with us today.

he foresaw and spoke [prophetically] of the resurrection of the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed), that He was not abandoned [in death] to Hades (the realm of the dead), nor did His body undergo decay.

For this reason, let all Israel be certain that this Jesus, whom you put to death on the cross, God has made Lord and Christ.

praising God continually, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord kept adding to their number daily those who were being saved.

but put to death the Prince of life, the one whom God raised from the dead, a fact to which we are witnesses.

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.

So the commander of the Temple guards went with his men to bring them back without force, because they were afraid of being stoned to death by the people.

We gave you very clear orders not to give teaching in this name: and now Jerusalem is full of your teaching, and you are attempting to make us responsible for this man's death.