After Christ was crucified, where did He immediately go?

Answer 1

He decended to Hell and got people like Moses, Abraham, and others who believe in him.

Answer 2

In the Hebrew Scriptures, the word used to described the realm of the dead is "Sheol." It simply means the "place of the dead" or the "place of departed souls/spirits." The New Testament Greek word that is used for hell is "Hades," which also refers to “the place of the dead.” Other Scriptures in the New Testament indicate that Sheol / Hades is a temporary place, where souls are kept as they await the final resurrection and judgment. Revelation 20:11-15 gives a clear distinction between the two. Hell (the lake of fire) is the permanent and final place of judgment for the lost. Hades is a temporary place. So, no, Jesus did not go to “Hell” because “Hell” is a future realm, only put into effect after the Great White Throne Judgment (Revelation 20:11-15).

Sheol / Hades is a realm with two divisions (Matthew 11:23; 16:18; Luke 10:15; 16:23; Acts 2:27-31), the abodes of the saved and the lost. The abode of the saved was called “Paradise” and “Abraham's bosom.” The abodes of the saved and the lost are separated by a "great gulf fixed" (Luke 16:26). When Jesus ascended to Heaven, He took the occupants of Paradise (believers) with Him (Ephesians 4:8-10). The lost side of Sheol / Hades has remained unchanged. All unbelieving dead go there awaiting their final judgment in the future. Did Jesus go to Sheol / Hades? Yes, according to Ephesians 4:8-10 and 1 Peter 3:18-20.

Answer 3

Jesus went to the good side of Sheol to set the captives free. Meaning there were 2 sides to sheol before Jesus died and paved a way for mankind to be redeemed, made sinless so that we could go to heaven. One side was for the people who loved and believed in God and the other side was for the unbelievers. The good side was emptied by Jesus then and no longer is. The bad side still exists and is where anyone who does not believe goes ((their spirit). Jesus descended to this hell and then on the third day He arose again from the dead and is alive forevermore. You can read about this 2 sided place in Luke -- the story of the rich man and Lazarus. God bless

Answer 4

He was dead and was put into a cave, which was sealed with a large rock and guarded by Roman Centurions who feared he would come back to life. Three days later reports came in that he was alive, and they checked in the cave only to find he was not there. He came back in physical body, but less human and more God like than ever before.

Answer 5

Did you not read this story???......he was crucified, buried (tomb) he descended into hell on the 3rd day he rose againd and ascended into Heaven and is seated at the right hand of God.....I think this is how it goes....But its the basic story......why dont people know this???...PS.>He did NOT "go" to hell in that sense!!! Thats not what this means!

Answer 6

The Bible says that Jesus went into the pit of hell and took the keys away from Satan and let everyone out who was there because they didn't have a chance like the people who die after Jesus:)

Answer 7

I believe he went to hell (the level where those who were in paradice/puragory etc. were) and preached the gospel.

No one was in heaven --- because sin had not been defeated until that moment. I believe he took the entire group to heaven. And it was a ton of people -- all of those born before, the law, etc.

Answer 8

Christ was crucified, died and was buried, On the third day He arose from the dead and ascended into heaven!

Answer 9

This particular creed, known since the Third Century in the Western Church, draws reliably from the New Testament in general. However the phrase "He descended into hell" was evidently derived from an unusually-worded portion of Peter's First Epistle which says:

"He (Jesus) was put to death in the flesh, but he was raised to life in the Spirit, in which also he went and preached to the disobedient spirits who were in prison in the days of Noah when God waited patiently while the ark was being built...For this is why the gospel was preached even to the dead so that, although they have already been judged in the flesh like men, they might have life in the Spirit like God." (1 Peter 3:18-20; 4:6)

The first thing to note in this passage is that the Greek word "Hades"---translated "hell" in the Apostles' Creed---is the underworld of Greek mythology, not necessarily the place of permanent punishment of those utterly lost forever. Whatever preaching took place (as described in this passage from Peter) was, in my opinion, not in hell. It was in the world of the men, and evidently the world of those men who lived prior to the flood, that is amongst the Antediluvians. As noted in the first paragraph, there are those Bible commentaries who take this passage in Peter to mean that those who died before the flood were present as spirits in some sort of subterranean holding-tank, a division of Sheol known as Hades. It is supposed that Christ went to them after His death to offer them a second chance to know Him.

I do not believe that the Bible suggests in any way that anyone gets a second chance to hear and respond to the gospel after we die. For example, Hebrews 9:27, 28 says, "And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him."

The gospel has gone out to the world in our generation, and indeed in every generation since Christ rose from the dead, but what knowledge of God's saving grace was available in to the population of earth who lived before the Flood of Noah?

Other Bible scholars have argued that the "spirits in prison" referred to by Peter were fallen angels (as mentioned by Jude) who were removed from the world scene at the time of the flood and "...have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day." (Jude 6) The difficulty with this argument is that nowhere in the Bible is redemption offered to the angels. For example, the demons begged Jesus to give them more time, not to grant them mercy in the incident at Gadera with the demon possessed man who allowed a multitude of demons to indwell a herd of pigs, (Matthew 8:28-34). Still others argue that Christ preached only to the spirits of the righteous dead who lived before His time, and when He did so, He emptied Hades, leading those who were waiting there out and into Paradise.

Various arguments about Sheol and Hades and temporary intermediate-state compartments in the underworld have never made much sense to me. The Old Testament revelation of life-after-death is vague. Sheol is a general term meaning simply, "the grave." Only in the New Testament do we get the additional revelation that clearly defines the events that follow death for the non-believer and for the believer. In a separate essay, "Time and Eternity" will be found a discussion that I think resolves the issue. When a person dies he or she leaves time and enters eternity. It is, in eternity, only a split second between a person's death and their resurrection. Events that may be separated by hundreds or thousands of year in our time frame, can pass in eternity, "in a moment in the twinkling of an eye." For the Christian the scripture is clear, "to be absent from the body is to be at home with the Lord."

Answer 10

Grave.