Matthew 27:52

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who have fallen asleep, arose,

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  • Dan 12:2 : 2 `And the multitude of those sleeping in the dust of the ground do awake, some to life age-during, and some to reproaches -- to abhorrence age-during.
  • 1 Cor 15:20 : 20 And now, Christ hath risen out of the dead -- the first-fruits of those sleeping he became,
  • John 5:25-29 : 25 `Verily, verily, I say to you -- There cometh an hour, and it now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those having heard shall live; 26 for, as the Father hath life in himself, so He gave also to the Son to have life in himself, 27 and authority He gave him also to do judgment, because he is Son of Man. 28 `Wonder not at this, because there doth come an hour in which all those in the tombs shall hear his voice, 29 and they shall come forth; those who did the good things to a rising again of life, and those who practised the evil things to a rising again of judgment.
  • Isa 26:19 : 19 `Thy dead live -- My dead body they rise. Awake and sing, ye dwellers in the dust, For the dew of herbs `is' thy dew, And the land of Rephaim thou causest to fall.
  • 1 Thess 4:14 : 14 for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God those asleep through Jesus he will bring with him,
  • 1 Thess 5:10 : 10 who did die for us, that whether we wake -- whether we sleep -- together with him we may live;
  • Isa 25:8 : 8 He hath swallowed up death in victory, And wiped hath the Lord Jehovah, The tear from off all faces, And the reproach of His people He turneth aside from off all the earth, For Jehovah hath spoken.
  • Hos 13:14 : 14 From the hand of Sheol I do ransom them, From death I redeem them, Where `is' thy plague, O death? Where thy destruction, O Sheol? Repentance is hid from Mine eyes.
  • Acts 7:60 : 60 and having bowed the knees, he cried with a loud voice, `Lord, mayest thou not lay to them this sin;' and this having said, he fell asleep.
  • 1 Cor 15:51 : 51 lo, I tell you a secret; we indeed shall not all sleep, and we all shall be changed;

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