Sentences with phrase «of the tombs after»

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.»

53 They came out of the tombs after Jesus» resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.

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).

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).

Yet, Protestant / evangelical Christians will believe as absolute fact, that a first century dead man walked out of his tomb after three days of decomposing, ate a broiled fish lunch with his friends, and then levitated into outer space based on the testimony of... one..., possible, eyewitness» testimony!

Not exact matches

The act of writing was invented, after all, to convey the sacred: Permanent things must be passed on in a permanent way, hence the hieroglyphs on Egyptian tombs.

I wonder what would be revealed if scientists would be permitted to study the remains in the tomb at Machpelah... after all, like all things Biblical, we only have one reference, and we ONLY have Abraham's word that he saw the face of God (contrary to John 1:18: No man hath seen God at any time, AND John 6:46: Not that any man hath seen the Father)... Bet you those bones aren't from a 175 year old man and 127 year old woman...

His body was put in a new tomb, but when early on the Sunday morning, the day after the Sabbath, some of the women who had followed Jesus went there to prepare his body for burial, they found that the stone across the entrance to the tomb, which was a cave, had been rolled away and that the tomb was empty.

Then as Luke states, they RETURNED after they watched the stone rolled over the entrance to the tomb, and Luke gives his account from the perspective of the weekly Sabbath, and not the High Day Sabbath as Mark does.

After the women came to the tomb on Sunday, later that day, scripture confirms «it is the third day since all of this took place.»

But after having several stints in tombs, I wonder if those verses could be translated as, Would you consider choosing joy in the midst of your suffering because what you are going through has the potential to help you grow?

Even assuming that Jesus» grave was known, which is by no means certain, it seems very possible that neither party was interested in it, or regarded the truth of Easter as dependent on it, until long after the event: until the period of the controversies reflected in Matthew, which would not arise until the empty tomb had become important in Christian thought about the Resurrection.

Only in the obviously late and legendary story of the guard at the tomb (Mt. 27:63) is there any clear indication that a resurrection was expected, and this story is evidently related to controversies between Christians and Jews in Matthew's own day, many years after the event and at a time when the subject of dispute was the empty tomb.

The tomb where the disciples had laid the Lord's body found empty, along with the reports of His appearances after His burial, especially at His ascension, are eyewitness accounts and actual evidence for His resurrection given by His devout followers.

Jesus wore white after He died and came back to life and walked out of the tomb in which no one had been laid.

Mithra Was born of a virgin on December 25th, in a cave, attended by shepherds Was considered a great traveling teacher and master Had 12 companions or disciples Promised his followers immortality Performed miracles Sacrificed himself for world peace Was buried in a tomb and after three days rose again Was celebrated each year at the time of His resurrection (later to become Easter) Was called «the Good Shepherd» Was identified with both the Lamb and the Lion Was considered to be the «Way, the Truth and the Light,» and the «Logos,» «Redeemer,» «Savior» and «Messiah.»

Some have said — and doubtless the majority of believers have assumed that after Jesus» burial there was a rising such that the tomb in which he had been laid was found empty.

Long after the martyrdom and burial of Thomas, when king Mazdai opened the tomb of the apostle with the hope of healing his sick son with the touch of the relics, the bones were not found, «for one of the brethren had taken them away secretly and conveyed to the west».

But three days after He was buried, he walked out of his tomb, thereby defeating death with its own weapon.

The badly - in - need - of - repair marble edicule that surrounded the tomb was stripped down to the limestone platform where the body of Jesus was believed to have been laid after his crucifixion.

Legend states that the pagans (who continued in number and strength long after Constantine embraced Christianity) had deliberately built their temple over Christ's tomb to cover any trace of the false god.

It is significant that the earliest Gospel, Mark, uses the term «after three days» consistently in the prediction passages, but where these are quoted in Matthew or Luke the phrase has been changed to «on the third day».23 The change can be explained by saying that between the writing of the first and the later Gospels the story of the empty tomb had become more widely known, and the phrase «after three days», as a dating of the resurrection event, fell out of use.

Either those who affirmed that the tomb was empty lived so far away from Jerusalem or such a long time after the burial of Jesus that their statement could not be verified or else no verification was ever possible because the tomb of Jesus could not be identified.

The historical study of the New Testament records has not confirmed the traditional view that the physical body of Jesus (either transformed or not) came forth from the tomb within thirty - six hours after it had been placed there, later to ascend into heaven.

Led out and called to account, he is said always to have replied nothing but: «What after all are all these churches now if they are not the tombs and sepulchers of God?»

After the stone, which seals the cave of nonbeing in which he is buried, has been rolled away and Jesus has issued the call to come forth, he, with hands and feet bound and eyes covered with a burial cloth, by some prodigious effort succeeds in exiting from the tomb.

The only author in the Bible who mentions anything about guards being at the tomb, Matthew, says that the guards were not posted until the next day after Jesus body had been placed in the tomb, and, even though Joseph of Arimethea had rolled a great stone in front of the tomb, he had not sealed it.

Responsible scholars, checking on the facts, assert that of eight persons in the working party that opened the tomb, six were still alive fourteen years later, while two were still living twenty - eight years after the event, which was longer than the period of their average life expectancy.

Jesus died the same day he was put on the cross... Then his body was taken down cleaned and placed in the tomb... and then Jesus rose from the ranks of the dead on the third day... after he had already died...

It was after praying at Laval's tomb, however, that I noticed a memorial plaque more revelatory of the current state of Catholicism in Québec than the province's notable register of saints.

[21] After baptism they would rise from «the tomb»,» [having] submerged yourselvesthree times in the water and emerged: by this symbolic action you were secretly re-enacting the burial of Christ three days in the tomb.»

After the grotesque scene ended, what was left of John was claimed by his disciples and laid in a tomb.

7) After his death his disciples, skeptics and persecutors of disciples: A. Reported finding an empty tomb B. reported having met a resurrected Jesus Christ 8) Some of his disciples were persecuted for refusing to recant the statement that they had met a physically resurrected Christ.

Three days after His death by crucifixion, that tomb was found to be empty by a group of His women followers 3.

When she entered the sepulcher after their departure, two angels had come and taken their places at the head and foot of the tomb.

Matthew's story of the saints who left their tombs and entered the city after Jesus» resurrection (27:52 - 53) is another case in point.

«On the third day» — not the third day after — does happen to be the first day of the week when they went to the tomb.

After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb.

Only the intimate friends and followers of Jesus had seen the tomb immediately after Jesus had vacated it.

The phrase «after his resurrection» is confusing at this point, because the opening of the tombs is associated with the earthquake when Jesus died.

While in the country, Dr. Rowley and his 12 - member delegation will hold bilateral talks with President Mahama and members of Cabinet, meet with some Ghanaian businessmen and lay a wreath on the tomb of George Padmore, a Trinidadian Pan-Africanist Journalist, a close ally of Ghana's founding father, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, who died in Ghana after residing here for many years.GhanaPoliticsonline.com

After years of studying hieroglyphs and investigating tombs, Brier had decided that his research would not be complete until he mummified — properly — a human body.

Fires set in an attack on the tomb after the emperor's death may have refired some of the clay, accounting for the temperature discrepancy, the researchers say.

After two years, a leg of fried chicken in a dry tomb had just shrivelled, its meat intact.

After decades of debate, many archaeologists concluded that Philip was buried in tomb II, now commonly called the «Tomb of Philip.»

After weeks of denials, Egypt's top archaeologist admitted yesterday that several ancient tombs and «many» storerooms were damaged or looted during the recent chaos that swept Hosni Mubarak out of office.

Using scanning and radiography to analyze the unearthed bones, a team of scientists has concluded that tomb I, not tomb II, housed the king's remains as well as those of his roughly 18 - year - old wife, Cleopatra, and their newborn child, both killed soon after Philip.

Neruda's body was unearthed from his tomb in Isla Negra, Chile, in early April, as part of an investigation opened after Neruda's former driver Manuel Araya said that the real cause of the poet's death was an unscheduled injection that he received a few hours before dying.

Fires set in an attack on the tomb after the emperor's death may have refired some of the clay.

That was the case in the Middle Ages, with the heavy Eastern influence that the Crusades brought to Europe; it was the case after the excavations of the tomb of Tutankhamun, which led to the Egyptomania of the 1920's; and it was the case with the paisley prints of 1970's hippies.