Jesus’ Resurrection

  • The accounts of Jesus’ resurrection
    • Matthew 28:1 – 15
    • Mark 16:1 – 16
    • Luke 24
    • John 20 – 21
  • Old Testament prediction of the resurrection of the Messiah
    • Psalm 16:8 – 11, quoted in Acts 2:25 – 32
  • Jesus predicted His own resurrection
    • John 2:18 – 22, 10:17 – 18
    • Matthew 12:38 – 40
    • Matthew 16:21, Mark 8:31, Luke 9:22 
    • Matthew 17:22
    • Matthew 20:18 – 19, Mark 10:33 – 34 
  • The Sanhedrin remembered Jesus’ predictions
    • Matthew 27:62 – 64
  • A characteristic of faith is understanding the resurrection as evidence
    • Acts 1:3, 2:24 – 32, 17:31
    • Romans 2:22 – 25, 6:4 – 9, 10:9, 1:4
    • 1 Corinthians 15:3 – 20
    • 1 Thessalonians 4:14
    • Colossians 2:12
  • The Sadducees did not believe that people would be resurrected
    • Matthew 22:23, Mark 12:18, Luke 20:27
    • Acts 23:8
    • Acts 24:15
  • Others were raised after Jesus was raised (Matthew 27:53)
  • Jesus spoke of a general resurrection
    • Luke 14:14 “you shall be repaid at the resurrection of the just”
    • John 5:29, “and come forth – those who have done good to a resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to a resurrection of condemnation.”
    • John 6:39, “…I should use nothing but should raise it up at the last day.”
    • John 11:24, Martha, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection of the last day.”
  • New Testament writers spoke of the importance of Jesus’ resurrection
    • 1 Peter 1:3 to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus
    • 1 Peter 3:21 but the response of a good conscience into God through the resurrection of Jesus Christ
    • Acts 26:8  Why should it be thought incredible by you that God raises the dead?
    • Acts 26:23  that the Christ would suffer, that He would be the first to rise from the dead, and would proclaim light to the people and to the Gentiles.
    • 2 Corinthians 4:14, evangelism, knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus, and will present us with you.
    • Romans 4:24 – 25  Righteousness “shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised Jesus from the dead, who was delivered up because of our offenses and was raised because of our justification.”
    • Romans 7:4  “you also have become dead to the Law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another – to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.”
    • 1 Corinthians 15:12 – 19  If in this life only we have hop in Christ, we are of all me the most to be pitied.
    • Philippians 3:10 – 11 that I may attain to the resurrection of the dead
  • Jesus’ resurrection symbolizes our resurrection on the last day
    • 1 Corinthians 6:14 (concerning morality) And God raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power.
    • 1 Corinthians 15:23 – 24  afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming
    • 1 Corinthians 15:42 – 49  sown a natural body, raised a spiritual body.  We shall bear the image of the heavenly.
  • Jesus’ resurrection symbolizes our spiritual resurrection
    • Ephesians 2:6  and raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
    • Romans 8:11 “But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.”
    • Romans 6:4  Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we should walk in newness of life.