Matt. 27:52 "The tombs broke open and the bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life"

Question

This happened after the crucifixion of Jesus. Do you think these people were raised to everlasting life at this time or did they die again and are now awaiting Jesus' return for their everlasting bodies.
I have my own opinion but would appreciate yours.

Matthew 27:53 states "They came out of the tombs, and after Jesus' resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many people."

Answer 1

No,like Lazarus ,they were a witness,but then had to die again in the future.Jesus is the only one in a glorified body right now.

Answer 2

After each dispensation there is a general resurrection . At these times [there have been 4 or 5] the sleeping survivors are awakened. There is no physical raising of the forms of the previous life.

Answer 3

Remember, at this time people were in what was known as "Abraham's Bosom"; a type of waiting place.
They were awaiting the entrance of the blood of the Lamb upon the Holy of Holies so they, too, could enter into Heaven.
They have since been given entrance into Heaven, I believe. Scripture says it is appointed unto man ONCE to die; not twice.

Answer 4

The moment Jesus breathes his last, a violent earthquake occurs, splitting open the rock-masses. The quake is so powerful that the memorial tombs outside Jerusalem are broken open and corpses are thrown out of them. Passersby who see the dead bodies that have been exposed enter the city and report it.

Whoever “the holy ones” were, Matthew did not say they were raised up. He said their bodies, or corpses, were. Second, he did not say these bodies came to life. He said they were raised up, and the Greek verb e·gei′ro, meaning to “raise up,” does not always refer to a resurrection. It can, among other things, also mean to “lift out” from a pit or to “get up” from the ground. (Matthew 12:11; 17:7; Luke 1:69) The upheaval at Jesus’ death opened tombs, tossing lifeless bodies into the open. Such occurrences during earthquakes were reported in the second century C.E. by Greek writer Aelius Aristides and more recently, in 1962, in Colombia. Also last year at New Orleans the high water made coffins come up out of the ground and bodies were in the water.

The corpses raised up at Jesus’ death could not have come to life in the way Epiphanius thought, for on the third day thereafter, Jesus became “the firstborn from the dead.” (Colossians 1:18)

verse 52 describes the opening of tombs by the earthquake and the exposing of newly buried corpses. For example, German scholar Theobald Daechsel gives the following translation: “And tombs opened up, and many corpses of saints laying at rest were lifted up.”

Who were those that “entered into the holy city” a considerable time later, namely after Jesus had been resurrected? As seen above, the exposed bodies remained lifeless, so Matthew must refer to persons who visited the tombs and brought news of the event into Jerusalem.

Quake Clarifies Scripture

“Today we have the smell of the dead who have been asleep in the tombs,” said a Red Cross worker, describing one striking effect of a powerful earthquake that hit Popayán, Colombia, just before the Easter weekend. “The cemetery tombs opened up and corpses came out. I’ve never seen anything like it.” As reported in the St. Petersburg Times, the Red Cross worker was stunned “by the sight of corpses bursting from their tombs in the cemeteries of this mountain town. The quake that Thursday shook this city of 200,000 struck with such force that the walls of mausoleums crumbled, spilling caskets, The city was shaken as if God had taken a jackhammer to it.”

This unusual happening helps to verify as well as explain the Biblical record of a similar event that occurred in Jerusalem some 1,900 years ago at the time of Jesus’ death. Then, Matthew 27:51-53 tells us, “the earth quaked, and the rock-masses were split. And the memorial tombs were opened and many bodies of the holy ones that had fallen asleep were raised up, and they became visible to many people.” Then, as in Colombia, the dead thus exposed were seen by witnesses who told those in the city, as the Bible account indicates by saying that persons “coming out from among the memorial tombs, entered into the holy city.”

Answer 5

They not in any respect existed. the finished incident not in any respect handed off. unusual how the in difficulty-free words record of such an prevalence replaced into in the gospel of Matthew and nowhere else. you would possibly want to imagine the Romans, meticulous record keepers that they were, might want to have talked about before lifeless human beings walking about.

Answer 6

When Jesus spoke to the theif on the cross, he told him that he'd go to paradise that same day.

When Jesus was resurrected, he went directly to heaven in his physical body.

It stands to reason (although it does not say so expressly in the text) that, while they appeared to people in the city, just like Jesus did, they went directly to heaven in their physical bodies, just like Jesus.

Answer 7

Check another versions or 3 to 4 versions...they were not raised up or resurrected...it was a graveyard that overflowed due to an earthquake........

Answer 8

No, I believe these are the 144.000 Because they already died, were judged because Paul said you die once then are judged

Answer 9

There is no historical proof to support that funny incidence

Answer 10

yes