Has Jesus Ever Spent Time In hell?

Question

i want to know,cus my mom seys he has and i sey he hasnt

o.k.this is for christain religion.out of the christan bible.

i know he was tempted.but was he ever IN hell.and if so,where doesit sey it in the bible

Answer 1

The creed says "he descended to the dead." However, this is a more recent translation used in the Episcopal Church. The old language said "he descended into hell"

Answer 2

Some theologians think that it is possible to interpret this passage as saying that Jesus visited Hell to preach the gospel.

1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, 19 in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, 20 because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.

Another interpretation of that passage is that the Spirit of Christ preached through Noah before the flood.

2 Peter 2:5 and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, the eighth, a preacher of righteousness, when He brought a flood upon the ungodly world;


But there are some misguided teachers who make the unsupported claim that Jesus actually suffered in Hell for us. That goes against what the Bible teaches, that Jesus finished work on the cross was all sufficient for our salvation.

Answer 3

No Jesus did not go to hell. Your mom might be thinking of Ephesians 4:9 Now this, "He ascended"-what does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?
The Lord Jesus descended to Bethlehem's manger, to the death of the cross, and to the grave. The lower parts of the earth have sometimes been taken to refer to hades (Hades, like its Old Testament counterpart Sheol, refers to a number of different things. Sometimes it refers to the grave, the place where the dead reside. It also refers to the place where the wicked suffer after death. It may also be a general term for the unseen realm of the dead, but this is not clear. It is never used of final destination of anyone, righteous or unrighteous. Hades will someday end when it is thrown into the lake of fire.)
, which is not hell.Luke 23:43,46 indicate that Christ's spirit went to heaven, not hell, when he died.

Answer 4

This is always going to be the type of question that is hard to answer. Since many of us don't know the difference between all the terms such as hell, hades, Sheol or death. I like some of the answers given previously. Eph 4 referring to ascension and descending is good. I Pet 3 - same thing.
Rev 1:17-19 talks about Jesus saying He is the one who lives, and was dead. He also has the keys of death and hell.

Seems to me that if Christ took our sins upon himself at the cross, He had to descend - for us. Remember Jesus' saying My God, why have You forsaken me while he was on the cross? He took on our sin and paid our penalty. While descended, he took the keys of hell and death. (Rev 1) But he did not suffer torment there and He defeated Satan yet again overcoming death and hell.

The final judgment is the Lake of Fire. It's everlasting for those not in the Book of Life.

Answer 5

First of all hell is not Earth. If you believe that then there could be much worse in store. Yes Jesus descended into hell after his death on the cross to proclaim his victory over the devil and then hours later defeating death by rising from the dead.

Answer 6

Jesus was not in a firey place of torment some call hell. When he died he was in Hades for 3 days... that is the common grave. Then he was resurrected.

On a side note, why would God need a firey hell to torment people if He inspired the apostle Paul to write the following:
Rom. 6:23: "The wages sin pays is death."
Rom. 6:7: "He who has died has been acquitted from his sin."
When one is acquitted, that one's sin is cleared right?

Answer 7

Well, your mom is absolutely right. You should know better than to think you're mommy is wrong? Shame on you!!!!
(just kidding).
Yes, you can read of it in 1Peter 3: -- uh, I think around verse 19 or so??? 18?

While Jesus was still in the tomb, he went to all those to tell of the crucifiction being accomplished and that salvation was now available to all. You don't think that God would be so unfair as to not offer salvation to all those - Adam, Eve, Noah, David,
Mary His own mother for Gods sake, c'mon, are you serious?? Of course He did.

All souls, even the worst most rotten of them, all souls when they leave the flesh, return to God. All souls are owned by God, and return to Him. Those that still have a soul that is perishable when they die, will be on the other side of an uncrossable gulph,
awaiting the 1000 yr. period of teaching that comes in when Christ returns. Hopefully, during that teaching period, they will be saved. So it wasn't as if Christ went to some firey pit; He simply went to Heaven where all souls wait. Nobody is in a hole in the ground when they die. Nobody.

Answer 8

No!
some preachers say he was including Joyce Meyers.
The bible says he went to "hades" which is the place of the dead. NOT hell. There was 2 places of hades before Jesus rose from the dead; Abrahams bossom and hell. Jesus went to Abrahams' bossom and preached or showed himself to those from the OT. After he did they went to heaven.
Hell was made for satan and his crew, Jesus paid the price of our sin ON the cross.
amen?
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Answer 9

Right after Jesus was crucified and laid in the tomb he descended into hell to preach his word there and those who accepted him were taken out of hell to paradise. Then on the third day Jesus was resurrected.

Answer 10

Hades, Sheol, etc. were terms for the grave. The Hollywood concept of hell that might be confusing you, is drawn from a composite of scriptures taken out of context.