Bible Verses About The Resurrection of Christ

but they held him back, saying, “Stay with us, for it’s almost evening, and it’s getting dark.” So he went in to stay with them.

As he was reclining with them at the table, he took the matzah, made the b’rakhah, broke it and handed it to them.

Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. But he became invisible to them.

saying, “It’s true! The Lord has risen! Shim‘on saw him!”

Then the two told what had happened on the road and how he had become known to them in the breaking of the matzah.

Startled and terrified, they thought they were seeing a ghost.

But he said to them, “Why are you so upset? Why are these doubts welling up inside you?

Look at my hands and my feet — it is I, myself! Touch me and see — a ghost doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you can see I do.”

which he took and ate in their presence.

Then he opened their minds, so that they could understand the Tanakh,

telling them, “Here is what it says: the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day;

and as he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven.

Yeshua answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”

The Judeans said, “It took years to build this Temple, and you’re going to raise it in three days?”

But the “temple” he had spoken of was his body.

Therefore, when he was raised from the dead, his talmidim remembered that he had said this, and they trusted in the Tanakh and in what Yeshua had said.

No one takes it away from me; on the contrary, I lay it down of my own free will. I have the power to lay it down, and I have the power to take it up again. This is what my Father commanded me to do.”

(They had not yet come to understand that the Tanakh teaches that the Messiah has to rise from the dead.)

Miryam of Magdala went to the talmidim with the news that she had seen the Lord and that he had told her this.

In the evening that same day, the first day of the week, when the talmidim were gathered together behind locked doors out of fear of the Judeans, Yeshua came, stood in the middle and said, “Shalom aleikhem!”

Having greeted them, he showed them his hands and his side. The talmidim were overjoyed to see the Lord.

Now T’oma (the name means “twin”), one of the Twelve, was not with them when Yeshua came.

A week later his talmidim were once more in the room, and this time T’oma was with them. Although the doors were locked, Yeshua came, stood among them and said, “Shalom aleikhem!”

Then he said to T’oma, “Put your finger here, look at my hands, take your hand and put it into my side. Don’t be lacking in trust, but have trust!”

After this, Yeshua appeared again to the talmidim at Lake Tiberias. Here is how it happened: