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The resurrection of Jesus
On the first day of the week the tomb of Jesus was found empty, and He appeared alive to Mary Magdalene, to the disciples, and, according to Paul, to more than five hundred people at once. The New Testament proclaims that God raised Him bodily from the dead.
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The empty tomb is discovered
Early on the first day of the week, women who had followed Jesus came to His tomb and found the stone moved and the body gone. Messengers told them He had risen. Mary Magdalene ran to Peter and John, who found the linen cloths lying where the body had been.
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Jesus appears to Thomas
Thomas had missed the first appearance and said he would not believe without touching the wounds. A week later Jesus came again, invited Thomas to do exactly that, and Thomas answered with the fullest confession in the Gospels, calling Jesus his Lord and his God.
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Jesus appears to more than five hundred
Paul passed on a summary he had himself received: Christ died for our sins, was buried, was raised on the third day, and appeared to Cephas, to the Twelve, to more than five hundred at once, to James, to all the apostles, and finally to Paul.
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The conversion of Paul
Saul of Tarsus, a Pharisee who had approved Stephen's death, set out to arrest believers in Damascus. Near the city a light from heaven threw him down and the risen Jesus spoke to him. Blind for three days, he was healed and baptized by a disciple named Ananias and began at once to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues.
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Jesus
Jesus of Nazareth is the center of the Christian faith and of FaithGraph. The Gospels present Him as the promised Messiah of Israel, the eternal Word made flesh, who taught, healed, was crucified under Pontius Pilate, rose bodily on the third day, and commissioned His followers to carry the good news to all nations.
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Connections around Resurrection
The resurrection of Jesus develops the theme Resurrection
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceThe raising of Jesus is the event on which the whole theme rests.
Evidence:The empty tomb is discovered develops the theme Resurrection
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceThe messengers announce that Jesus has risen as He said.
Evidence:Jesus appears to Thomas develops the theme Resurrection
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceThe wounds of the risen body are shown and touched.
Evidence:Jesus appears to more than five hundred develops the theme Resurrection
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidencePaul's summary is the earliest statement of the resurrection and names its witnesses.
The conversion of Paul develops the theme Resurrection
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidencePaul's encounter is with the risen Jesus, and he counts it among the appearances.
Jesus teaches Resurrection
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus names Himself the resurrection and the life and foretells His own rising on the third day.
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