Old Testament Scripture Anticipating Resurrection For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. (Job 19:25) For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who can give your praise? (Psalm 6:5) For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or...
”Then Peter stood up … raised his voice and addressed the crowd: ‘Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you… this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people …. The sun wil...
New Testament Resurrection Scriptures For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.(Matthew 12:40) For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, thro...
While these Old Testament scriptures seem pretty clear on the issue, there were some Jews, even in Jesus’ time, who did not believe they would be resurrected in the next life. The Gospels describe an encounter between Jesus and some Sadducees who rejected the resurrection of the dead (...
The gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures regarding his Son, who as to his earthly life was a descendant of David, and who through the Spirit of holiness was appointed the Son of God in power by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord (Rom...
that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve." (15:3-5)Paul taught:That Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah. That Christ died for our sins -- in fulfillment of Scripture, especially, Isaiah 53. That Christ was...
Jesus reveals that the purpose of this sickness will be to glorify God.[171]Similarly, the man born blind was so that "the work of God might be displayed in his life" (9:3). Is all sickness for this purpose? No. The Scriptures show that some sickness is a result of sin (5:14;...
Listen again to Paul 1 Corinthians 15:3–8 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, 5 and that he...
who headed New Testament studies Early Christianity and Judaism of the Second Temple period studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. Flusser, no fundamentalist or evangelical in his approach to New Testament Scriptures, marveled at both the lack of faith and lack of good historical me...
Paul appears here at his best, from the human standpoint, but he also speaks as a divinely inspired servant of Christ. Of Apollos, we read elsewhere that he was an eloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures, and it is very evident from this sample sermon that Paul was a man of the sa...