What did Jesus do for 3 days in hell after he died?

Question

Was he burning in the fire? Was Lucifer torturing him? Was he sightseeing?

Answer 1

1 Peter 3:19

preached. While in Hades in the Spirit, He “preached”—that is, “proclaimed”—His victory over death and Hades (Matthew 16:18; Colossians 2:15; Revelation 1:18; Luke 4:18). Note that “hell” in these verses is the Greek hades, the great pit at the center of the earth where lost souls and many rebellious angels are confined. Before Christ’s resurrection, the souls of believers were also resting there, but these captives were delivered by Christ when He rose from the dead (Ephesians 4:8-10). The Greek word for “preached” here is not the word for “preached the gospel” (eyaggelizo) as in 1 Peter 1:12, 25; 4:6, but rather kerusso, which means “proclaimed” (Luke 12:3) or “published” (e.g., Luke 8:39). Christ was not giving a second chance, as it were, to those who had died in unbelief, for there is no second chance after death (Hebrews 9:27). Rather, He was proclaiming victory over Satan and his hosts.

spirits. These “spirits in prison” almost certainly were the evil spirits who had sinned in the days of Noah by trying to corrupt and control all flesh (Genesis 6:1-4, 12). Whenever the word “spirits” is used in the plural and not clearly indicated otherwise (as in Hebrews 12:23 and 1 Corinthians 14:32), it always refers to supernatural beings, or angels. In support of this meaning, note that there are thirty such occurrences in the New Testament, with only two, as noted above, referring to spirits of men. At least twenty-six of these thirty occurrences refer to evil spirits, which strongly indicates that to be the meaning here.

in prisons. The “prison” where these evil spirits are confined is identified elsewhere by Peter as tartarus, the Greek name translated “hell” in 2 Peter 2:4. This is evidently a special compartment of Hades where these “angels that sinned” are confined in “chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment.” They are also described in similar terms by Jude (see Jude 6).

Answer 2

He didn't DO anything. When you're dead, you simply do not exist. That's what the Bible tells us. In order to go anywhere after death and feel, you would have to have conscious thought. The Bible tells us the exact state of those that die: "but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all...." (Ecclesiastes 9:5). Thus, when Jesus was dead, he went into a state of non-existance. He could not see anything, nor could he hear anything or think anything. To add further, the book of Psalms tells us that when a man dies, "his thoughts do perish". So the answer is 'no', Jesus was not burning in some fiery hell, Lucifer was not torturing him, and no he was not sightseeing. He was dead. He did not exist for those 3 days.

Answer 3

He wasn't in hell, He was in Hades, the place of the dead. Further, what He did was preach to the disobedient: "...in which he went and made a proclamation to those imprisoned spirits who disobeyed long ago in the days of Noah, when God waited patiently while the ark was being built. In it a few, that is, eight persons, were saved by water." (I Peter 3:19-20)

And

"When he went up to the highest place he led captives into captivity and gave gifts to people." (Ephesians 4:8) taking with Him the righteous dead to be with Him and the Father.

Answer 4

The word of God says he went to the lower parts of the earth for 3 days and 3 nights.
He was there for all the ones that died believing in him and to the ones that died having never heard about him so that they would not be without excuse for their sin.

Answer 5

Definitely sightseeing!

Honestly, I don't believe that he did descend into hell after he died.

Answer 6

He freed the righteous old testament saints ie moses, abraham, joshua, etc. from hades and brought them into heaven and left the old testament damned behind to stand at the final judgment.

Answer 7

Gave those down there a chance to repent and get out.

Answer 8

paying the wages of sin, death, but only for those who believe in Him

As for me and mine we believe the FSM created the world and hope His Noodly Appendage touches you

Answer 9

Probably created virgins for 21st century muslims suicide bombers. Just kidding. !

Answer 10

sIghtseeing mostly