And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and
coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many.»
Since Jesus doesn't
come out of the tomb saying, «There.
Based on this tall tale when Jesus died the «saints» arose from the dead but stayed put at their graves until about 45 hours later when Jesus came back to life and
came out of his tomb.
If you care about him you should be worried for what his meeting with the guy who «
came out of the tomb» will be like.
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They came out of the tombs after Jesus» resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.
And one I was thinking about in connection with Matthew 27:52 - 53, where it seems that others were raised to life as soon as Jesus died, although they didn't
come out of their tombs until he rose again.
When he sees the strips of linen folded up into one place, he remembers that
he himself came out of his tomb, bound hand and foot, and had to be set free.
He has surmised what has happened, but he is hesitant to enter the tomb because
he himself came out of a tomb.
Did
he come out of the tomb laughing?
The awakening of the saints which immediately follows signals the beginning of this new creation: «And the tombs were opened and many bodies of the saints having been asleep were raised; and
coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they entered the holy city and were manifested to many» (27:53 - 3).
In every tomb the voice will be heard, «O dead,
come out of your tombs!»
«I don't know how my planting a tree today will relate to the wonderful trees that will be in God's recreated world... but I know that God's new world of justice and joy, of hope for the whole earth, was launched when Jesus
came out of the tomb on Easter morning.»
Only then can
we come out of that tomb as He did.
And I remember seeing also a postcard of Piero della Francesca, you know, the Arezzo mural of Christ
coming out of the tomb.
Not exact matches
As Jesus promised, «those in the memorial
tombs will hear [Christ's] voice and
come out» by means
of a resurrection.
When the angel appeared to Mary Magdalene at the
tomb, he did not discuss with her the fittingness
of the Resurrection, but rather called
out, «
Come and see the place where the Lord lay.»
Since they set
out to abolish such later innovations as the venerating
of Islamic saints and visiting their
tombs, the Wahhabis
came into direct conflict with the Shi'ites, who focus so much attention on the mausoleums
of their imams.
Jesus wore white after He died and
came back to life and walked
out of the
tomb in which no one had been laid.
And going
out of the
tomb they
came into the house
of the youth, for he was rich.
· «The women
came out and ran away from the
tomb because they were frightened
out of their wits; and they said nothing to a soul, for they were afraid» (Mk 16, 8).
The next paint to note is that this Marcan story nowhere implies that the body
of Jesus
came to life and walked
out of the
tomb.
He was strongly opposed to the teaching
of some
of his Christian contemporaries who wished to interpret the idiom
of resurrection as an allegorical description
of that Christian experience by which «a man, having
come to the truth, has been reanimated and revivified to God, and, the death
of ignorance being dispelled, has as it were burst forth from the
tomb of the old man».35 Tertullian was adamant that the resurrection was in the future and to be understood in physical, fleshly terms («I pronounce that the flesh will certainly rise again»).36 In order to forestall those who could contend the impossibility
of such a hope on the grounds that the decayed corpse would have long since wasted away to nothing, he pointed
out that quite recently, in his city, skeletons some five hundred years old had been unearthed in a remarkable state
of preservation.
The Gadarene demoniac
came running
out of the
tombs to confront him, dying, «I adjure you by God, do not torment me (Mark 5:1 - 7; cf. Matt.
At the time
of Jesus» death there was an earthquake (as not in the other gospels) and «many bodies
of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and
coming forth
out of the
tombs after his resurrection they entered into the holy city [note the Jewish expression] and appeared to many (27:52 - 3).
To all the rest
of us, Jesus» summons at the
tomb where each
of us will one day lie sounds something like this: «
Come out of there, friend.
Jesus
came into the world naked and died on the cross naked and walked
out of the
tomb naked.