"This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses.

"and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.

"To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one [of you] from your iniquities."

"Him God raised up on the third day, and showed Him openly,

"not to all the people, but to witnesses chosen before by God, [even] to us who ate and drank with Him after He arose from the dead.

"But God raised Him from the dead.

"And that He raised Him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, He has spoken thus: 'I will give you the sure mercies of David.'

"because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead."

saying, "Sir, we remember, while He was still alive, how that deceiver said, 'After three days I will rise.'

Now on the first [day] of the week, very early in the morning, they, and certain [other women] with them, came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.

Then they went in and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

Then, as they were afraid and bowed [their] faces to the earth, they said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?

"saying, 'The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.' "

Then they returned from the tomb and told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.

And their words seemed to them like idle tales, and they did not believe them.

Now behold, two of them were traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was seven miles from Jerusalem.

So it was, while they conversed and reasoned, that Jesus Himself drew near and went with them.

And He said to them, "What kind of conversation [is] this that you have with one another as you walk and are sad?"

And He said to them, "What things?" So they said to Him, "The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a Prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,

"But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened.

"When they did not find His body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said He was alive.

Then He said to them, "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.

But they constrained Him, saying, "Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent." And He went in to stay with them.

Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight.

So they rose up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven and those [who were] with them gathered together,

And they told about the things [that had happened] on the road, and how He was known to them in the breaking of bread.

But they were terrified and frightened, and supposed they had seen a spirit.

"Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have."

But while they still did not believe for joy, and marveled, He said to them, "Have you any food here?"

And He took [it] and ate in their presence.

And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures.

"and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

"Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high."

Now it came to pass, while He blessed them, that He was parted from them and carried up into heaven.

and were continually in the temple praising and blessing God. Amen.

Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

But He was speaking of the temple of His body.

"No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father."

but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,

Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

Who [is] he who condemns? [It is] Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power.

Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus, and will present [us] with you.

Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him from the dead),

which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated [Him] at His right hand in the heavenly [places,]

buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with [Him] through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, [even] Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.

Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,

who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

The pains of death surrounded me, And the pangs of Sheol laid hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow.

Then I called upon the name of the LORD: "O LORD, I implore You, deliver my soul!"

O LORD, truly I [am] Your servant; I [am] Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have loosed my bonds.

"Men [and] brethren, this Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus;

He will swallow up death forever, And the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces; The rebuke of His people He will take away from all the earth; For the LORD has spoken.

Your dead shall live; [Together with] my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust; For your dew [is like] the dew of herbs, And the earth shall cast out the dead.

Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He has put [Him] to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see [His] seed, He shall prolong [His] days, And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand.

"I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. O Death, I will be your plagues! O Grave, I will be your destruction! Pity is hidden from My eyes.

Then He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

"If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),

Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again:

Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

"I [am] He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.