but they could not find any, even though many people came forward and told lies about him. Finally two men stepped up

and said, "This man said, 'I am able to tear down God's Temple and three days later build it back up.' "

"You were going to tear down the Temple and build it back up in three days! Save yourself if you are God's Son! Come on down from the cross!"

"We heard him say, 'I will tear down this Temple which men have made, and after three days I will build one that is not made by men.' "

People passing by shook their heads and hurled insults at Jesus: "Aha! You were going to tear down the Temple and build it back up in three days!

In the same way that Jonah spent three days and nights in the big fish, so will the Son of Man spend three days and nights in the depths of the earth.

and said, "Sir, we remember that while that liar was still alive he said, 'I will be raised to life three days later.'

So Jesus answered them, "I tell you the truth: the Son can do nothing on his own; he does only what he sees his Father doing. What the Father does, the Son also does.

"The Father loves me because I am willing to give up my life, in order that I may receive it back again.

No one takes my life away from me. I give it up of my own free will. I have the right to give it up, and I have the right to take it back. This is what my Father has commanded me to do."

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me will live, even though they die;

Then Jesus began to teach his disciples: "The Son of Man must suffer much and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the teachers of the Law. He will be put to death, but three days later he will rise to life."

But God raised him from death, setting him free from its power, because it was impossible that death should hold him prisoner.

God has raised this very Jesus from death, and we are all witnesses to this fact.

You killed the one who leads to life, but God raised him from death---and we are witnesses to this.

And so God chose his Servant and sent him to you first, to bless you by making every one of you turn away from your wicked ways."

They were written also for us who are to be accepted as righteous, who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from death.

By our baptism, then, we were buried with him and shared his death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from death by the glorious power of the Father, so also we might live a new life.

If the Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from death, lives in you, then he who raised Christ from death will also give life to your mortal bodies by the presence of his Spirit in you.

I passed on to you what I received, which is of the greatest importance: that Christ died for our sins, as written in the Scriptures;

that he was buried and that he was raised to life three days later, as written in the Scriptures;

Now, since our message is that Christ has been raised from death, how can some of you say that the dead will not be raised to life?

For when you were baptized, you were buried with Christ, and in baptism you were also raised with Christ through your faith in the active power of God, who raised him from death.

For Christ died for sins once and for all, a good man on behalf of sinners, in order to lead you to God. He was put to death physically, but made alive spiritually,