So we request that you seal the tomb until the third day. This will prevent his disciples from coming and stealing his body and then telling everyone he was raised from the dead! If that happens, we’ll be worse off than we were at first.”

He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead, just as he said would happen. Come, see where his body was lying.

The officer confirmed that Jesus was dead, so Pilate told Joseph he could have the body.

but the angel said, “Don’t be alarmed. You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead! Look, this is where they laid his body.

David was looking into the future and speaking of the Messiah’s resurrection. He was saying that God would not leave him among the dead or allow his body to rot in the grave.

And Abraham’s faith did not weaken, even though, at about 100 years of age, he figured his body was as good as dead—and so was Sarah’s womb.

Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin. Instead, give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God.

The Resurrection Body

But someone may ask, “How will the dead be raised? What kind of bodies will they have?”

Christ is also the head of the church, which is his body. He is the beginning, supreme over all who rise from the dead. So he is first in everything.

Just as the body is dead without breath, so also faith is dead without good works.

He personally carried our sins in his body on the cross so that we can be dead to sin and live for what is right. By his wounds you are healed.