Verse 52

The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;

Referenced Verses

• Dan 12:2 : 2 Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
• 1 Cor 15:20 : 20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.
• John 5:25-29 : 25 Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God's voice; and those who hear will live. 26 For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself. 27 He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man. 28 Don't marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice, 29 and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.
• Isa 26:19 : 19 Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast forth the dead.
• 1 Thess 4:14 : 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
• 1 Thess 5:10 : 10 who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
• Isa 25:8 : 8 He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.
• Hos 13:14 : 14 I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? "Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.
• Acts 7:60 : 60 He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, don't hold this sin against them!" When he had said this, he fell asleep.
• 1 Cor 15:51 : 51 Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,