When Jesus was resurrected after they crucified him, what happened to the dead that came out of the tomb and was seen in town by people?
Non-scholarly, staunch atheists, who are paid to disparage the bible will say the dead rising was just added by Matthew to sprinkle color to the story, and then they’ll disparage the bible by saying Matthew didn’t make the resurrection of Christ unique by adding the resurrection of the other dead to the story. Since these people are generally speaking misinformed about the bible (sometimes deliberately as they can’t let go of their sins long enough to find God), they forget this wouldn’t be the first time the dead awakened. Here are the other occurrences in the bible:
- Elijah and the Widow’s Dead Son - “The LORD listened to the voice of Elijah. And the life of the child came into him again, and he revived.” 1 kings 7:17–24
- Elisha and the Shunammite Woman’s Dead Son - “The child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.” 2 King 4:18–37
- Dead Man Revived by Touching Elisha’s Bones - “I will open your graves and raise you from your graves, O my people. And I will bring you into the land of Israel.” - Ezekiel 37:1–14
In each of these cases, the people above were made alive again, and they went on to live for a while, until they ultimately passed away. What the Lord Yeshua (Jesus) did was prophesized in Isaiah: “Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise.” (Isaiah 26:19). Since the Lord Yeshua was the only one who not only resurrected, but ascended into Heaven as witnessed by His disciples who were willing to suffer any price to get the message out about Him, the gospel according to Matthew still preserves that only the Lord Yeshua resurrected and ascended into Heaven. Many followers of The Way (Christians) believe that Matthew was showing us a preview of what is going to happen on the last day.
Hosea said they would live in His presence. They obviously went up to heaven with Him at some point. The Bible does not mention when so anything else is just speculation.
This ranks as one of the most absurd Bible stories - it’s up there with talking snakes and donkeys, the Sun being made to stand still, and Jonah surviving inside a giant fish for three days.
There are two main features that mark this story out as fictitious:
- As Jerusalem was the favoured place for observant Jews to be buried, there would have been literally tens of thousands of ‘holy ones’ buried there. How come this extraordinary event - tens of thousands of dead people marching on Jerusalem doesn’t get a single mention from another NT author, or any of the contemporary historians who took a close interest in Palestine at that time?
- The earthquake, if it was powerful enough to have split rock-hewn tombs, would have levelled the city of Jerusalem - most of its houses being made of wood, mud and stone. Yet there is no mention of this happening anywhere in contemporary accounts, and no evidence in the archaeological record of such an event.
The account is clearly fabricated to make a theological point.
The same thing that happened to His promise to return…?
It was supposed to be within the lifetimes of people living at the time of the crucifixion…….still waiting…?
No one was resurrected at that time.
Why would God resurrect anyone at the time of his son’s death.
What happened was an earthquake opened tombs and people saw that and took the news to the city.
Matthew just badly wrote that.
The way it is stated in the scripture it sounds as if it happened at Jesus’ death (WHEN the earthquake opened the graves), but if you look closely, it states that “and came out of the graves after his resurrection” follows in the next verse. So we see it wasn't until Jesus was raised three days later that the other dead were raised. These resurrections were like Lazarus’. They lived a bit longer and then died a natural death (barring an accident) and were buried again. The benefit of their raising was to show that it could be done, and that the claim of Jesus’ resurrection was believable. The difference, of course, was that his was permanent. He would never die again.
The action of raising others who had died was a form of confirming the power of God to, in fact, raise dead ones. Many people, knowing those individuals had died and been buried, would have marveled to see them alive again.
Not all that many people saw Jesus resurrected. His directions were for the Apostles to go to Galilee to meet up with him where he spent the next 40 days “opening their understanding” and making the connection between his ministerial remarks and the scriptural foretellings. We are told that many things were hidden from them which is understandable considering the time constraint for his ministry period and his death at the third Passover of it.
Had the Apostles truly understood his upcoming death, it likely would have been a distraction throughout the remainder of ihis ministry, and would have served as a greater handicap for them. It was better to have the comfort of the Memorial service Jesus had introduced the evening before his death, to be a continual reminder for his followers plus the Holy Spirit Comforter which they later received as a help throughout their continuance of preaching the gospel and establishing ecclesias (churches) throughout the Roman habitable as the nucleus of an eventual worldwide spread (I'm not speaking of Catholicism) of Christianity.
To disbelieve Jesus’ resurrection may be compared to someone 200 or 2,000 years ago disbelieving that man would some day walk on the moon. It was so far from people’s experience with death that it seemed impossible, and even Michael Jordan couldn't break through the earth’s gravitational pull in his greatest leap!
But Jesus did rise and man did walk on the moon!
They are souls of those who died in God’s favor before Christ’s establishment of the new covenant and opening of the gates of Heaven to all the saved. They wandered around Jerusalem (maybe other places on earth, too) long enough to be noticed and proceeded on to Heaven. St. Paul notes that Jesus Christ, when He rose from the dead, “led forth a host of captives.” That’s who they are. This is the “harrowing of Hell,” which even has a liturgy in the Eastern Churches on Holy Saturday morning.
“When” Jesus was resurrected? You can’t he even prove he WAS resurrected. It’s not even certain he actually existed at all. So much question begging. Then further question begging assuming the subsequent zombie invasion was real, even though no one thought to write about it other than a single, anonymous Gospel author with an obvious agenda writing decades later.
They when to heaven with Jesus, he wasn’t going to let these people die again, this was an act of mercy and love for those whose lives reflected his character. Who knows who those people were; maybe Daniel or Joseph.
The book doesn’t say. Since we don’t seem to have them around today, one assumes they were removed from the earth somehow. Perhaps, like Moses and Elijah and Jesus, they were caught up into the sky. Perhaps their dried bones lost animation and clattered to the floor after a tearful reunion with family and friends. Perhaps, like Lazarus, they were given a new lease on a mortal life and passed on normally at a later age.
Or maybe something else entirely different. Whatever happened, it isn’t in the records we have.
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