Here is a list of most of the death and resurrection passages in the New Testament. It is not by any means exhaustive but should cover most of the instances. Some of the sections in bold are important apologetical evidence for the historicity of the resurrection. Some of these bold references either contain allusions to witnesses of the resurrection or preserve very early creedal material (statements of beliefs) regarding the origin of the resurrection belief. Most of the summaries reflect the King James Version.
- Matthew
- Matt. 12:39-40, Sign of Jonah
- Matt. 16:4, Sign of Jonah
- Matt. 16:21, Killed and raised
- Matt. 17:9, Do not tell information until risen from the dead
- Matt. 17:12, Son to suffer
- Matt. 17:22-23, Delivered, killed and raised
- Matt. 20:22, Drink of cup and be baptized
- Matt. 20:28, Give life a ransom for many
- Matt. 21:37-39, Parable of the husbandman-gives son-killed by workers
- Matt. 22:7, Small correlation*
- Matt. 23:34, Vague correlation*
- Matt. 26:2, 24, To be crucified
- Matt. 26:28, Drink of blood
- Matt. 26:54, Scriptures must be fulfilled
- Mark
- Mark 8:31, Suffer, die and arise
- Mark 8:34-35, Deny, take up the cross and follow
- Mark 9:9, Don’t tell until Jesus arose
- Mark 9:30-32, Son will be killed and arise from dead
- Mark 10:32-34, Same
- Mark 10:38, Drink of the cup, be baptized
- Mark 10:45, Give life a ransom for many
- Mark 12:6-8, Son killed by vineyard workers
- Mark 14:8, Anoint body for burying
- Mark 14:22-24, This is my body
- Luke
- Lk. 9:22, Rejected, killed and arise
- Lk. 9:23, Take up the cross
- Lk. 9:36, Do not tell what was seen until after the resurrection
- Lk. 11:29-32, Sign of Jonah
- Lk. 12:50, Baptism to be baptized with
- Lk. 13:32, Third day perfected
- Lk. 16:30-31, Not persuaded though one rise from the dead
- Lk. 18:31-33, Mocked, killed and rise again
- Lk. 20:14-15, Son killed by vineyard workers
- Lk. 22:15, Eat Passover before suffering
- Lk. 22:19-20, Bread and wine-body and blood symbolism
- Lk. 22:37, Allusion to death
- Lk. 22:42, Agony in Gethsemane-let cup pass
- John
- John 1:29, 36, Lamb of God
- John 2:18-22, Destroy temple and raise it in three days
- John 3:14, Son must be lifted up
- John 3:32, Meat to eat that you know not of
- John 6:27, Labor for the meat of life-son of man shall give
- John 6:51-58, Bread given-flesh of Jesus
- John 8:28, Lifted up the Son of man
- John 10:15, Lay down life for sheep
- John 10:17-18, Lay down life and take it
- John 11:50-51, Caiaphas prophesied Jesus’ death
- John 12:7, Ointment used for Jesus’ burying
- John 12:23-25, Son of man to be glorified-possibly means death
- John 12:32-33, Lifted up
- John 13:11, 21, Jesus knew who would betray him*
- John 13:33, Only with them a little while
- John 13:36, Cannot follow now, but later
- John 16:16, Little while and will not see Jesus
- John 16:32, Disciples to forsake Jesus*
- Acts
- Acts 1:3, Alive after passion
- Acts 1, Jesus’ words after the resurrection
- Acts 1:22, Witness of resurrection
- Acts 1:16-22, Peter’s statement
- Acts 2:14, Peter’s Pentecostal sermon
- Acts 2:23-24, Jesus crucified and raised
- Acts 2:27, Not leave the soul in hell
- Acts 2:31, Resurrection of Christ
- Acts 2:32, Witnesses of the resurrection
- Acts 2:36, Jesus crucified: Lord and Christ
- Acts 3:13-16, 18, Jesus killed and raised
- Acts 3:26, God raised Jesus
- Acts 4:2, Through Jesus the resurrection of the dead
- Acts 4:10, Jesus crucified and raised
- Acts 4:33, Great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection
- Acts 5:28, Bring man’s blood upon us
- Acts 5:30-32, Death and resurrection-apostles and Holy Spirit are witnesses
- Acts 7:52, Murderers of Jesus
- Acts 10:39-43, Death and resurrection witnesses, commission to preach
- Acts 13:29-31, Paul preached: death, burial, the empty tomb, appearances, witnesses
- Acts 13:33-37, Resurrection
- Acts 17:3, Suffer and rise again
- Acts 17:18, Jesus and resurrection
- Acts 17:31-32, Assurance by raising Jesus from the dead
- Acts 20:28, Flock purchased with Jesus’ blood
- Acts 22:15, Witness of Jesus-was the risen Lord-(also see Acts 9, 26)
- Acts 23:6-8, Resurrection of the dead-24:15, 21, 26:8
- Acts 25:19, Jesus dead-Paul said alive
- Acts 26:14-18, Appearance of Jesus
- Acts 26:23, Jesus suffer and rise first
- Romans
- Rom. 1:4, Declared Son of God by the resurrection from the dead
- Rom. 3:24-25, Faith in His blood
- Rom. 4:24, Jesus raised
- Rom. 4:25, Delivered and raised
- Rom. 5:6-11, Christ died for the ungodly-justified by His blood-saved by His life.
- Rom. 5:15, Offense-death-free gift*
- Rom. 6:3-14, Baptism: parallels death, burial, and resurrection
- Rom. 7:4, Dead to Christ: married to Him who was raised
- Rom. 8:11, Spirit raised Jesus
- Rom. 8:17-18, Suffered and glorified with Christ*
- Rom. 8:32, God delivered Jesus for us all
- Rom. 8:34, Jesus died and arose
- Rom. 10:6-7, Jesus died and rose (implied)-up from the dead
- Rom. 10:9, God raised Jesus
- Rom. 14:9, Death, resurrection and revived-Lord of dead and living
- Rom. 14:15, Destroy not a person for whom Christ died
- 1 Corinthians
- 1 Cor. 1:13, Paul crucified for you?
- 1 Cor. 1:17-18, Cross of Christ
- 1 Cor. 1:23, Christ crucified
- 1 Cor. 2:2, Know Jesus Christ and Him crucified
- 1 Cor. 2:8, Crucified Lord of glory
- 1 Cor. 5:7, Christ Passover sacrificed for us
- 1 Cor. 6:14, God raised up the Lord
- 1 Cor. 6:19-20, Bought with a price*
- 1 Cor. 8:11, Weak brother perish for whom Christ died?
- 1 Cor. 10:16, Body and blood-bread and wine
- 1 Cor. 11:23-29, Received/delivered: body/blood
- 1 Cor. 15:1-8, Creedal material on death and resurrection that Paul received
- 1 Cor. 15 – Resurrection, the importance of the resurrection
- 2 Corinthians
- 2 Cor. 1:9, Trust God which raiseth the dead
- 2 Cor. 2:12, Preach Christ’s gospel, 4:3-4, 10:14, 11:4*
- 2 Cor. 4:10, Dying of Lord Jesus
- 2 Cor. 4:11, Life of Jesus*
- 2 Cor. 4:14, Jesus raised: so will we
- 2 Cor. 5:14-15, Jesus’ death and resurrection
- 2 Cor. 5:21, Jesus made sin for us*
- 2 Cor. 13:4, Crucified by weakness: lives by the power of God
- Galatians
- Gal. 1:1, God raised Jesus
- Gal. 1:4, Jesus gave himself for our sins
- Gal. 1:6-10, Another gospel
- Gal. 1:11-12, Taught gospel by revelation
- Gal. 1-2, Conversion and gospel; Possible location where Paul received the 1 Cor. 15:3-8 creed?
- Gal. 2:2, Communicated gospel-doubt in Paul’s mind?
- Gal. 2:20, Crucified with Christ-Christ gave Himself for me
- Gal. 2:21, Christ died to free us from the law
- Gal. 3:1, Jesus crucified among them
- Gal. 3:13, Christ redeemed us from the law by being hanged on a tree
- Gal. 5:11, Offense of the cross
- Gal. 6:12, Persecution for the cross of Christ
- Gal. 6:14, Glory only in the cross
- Gal. 6:17, Marks of the Lord Jesus*
- Ephesians
- Eph. 1:7, Redemption through the blood
- Eph. 1:20, Christ raised and set in heavenly places-above all-Jesus exalted
- Eph. 2:6, Raised us up to sit with Christ
- Eph. 2:13, Made nigh by the blood of Christ
- Eph. 2:16, Reconcile by cross
- Eph. 5:25, Christ gave Himself for the Church
- Philippians
- Phil. 1:7, Defense and confirmation of the gospel (cf. 1:17)*
- Phil. 1:29, Suffer for His sake*
- Phil. 2:5-11, Jesus humbled, died, exalted, and glorified. This is considered a hymn by many scholars as an early date.
- Phil. 2:10-11, Know Him and the power of His resurrection-conformed to his death and sufferings
- Phil. 3:18, Enemies of the cross of Christ
- Colossians
- Col. 1:14, Redemption through the blood
- Col. 1:20, Peace through blood of the cross
- Col. 1:21-22, Reconciled through His death
- Col. 2:11-13, Put off sins by the circumcision of Christ-buried and raised by baptism
- Col. 2:14, Nailed it to the cross
- Col. 2:20, Dead with Christ
- Col. 3:1, Risen with Christ
- Col. 3:3, Dead: life hid with Christ
- 1 Thessalonians
- 1 Thess. 1:10, Jesus raised from the dead
- 1 Thess. 2:15, Killed Jesus
- 1 Thess. 4:14, Believe Jesus died and rose again
- 1 Thess. 5:10, Jesus died for us
- 2 Thessalonians
- 1 Timothy
- 1 Tim. 2:6, Gave Himself a ransom for all
- 1 Tim. 3:16, Manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit
- 2 Timothy
- 2 Tim. 1:10, Jesus abolished death: brought life and immortality to light through the gospel
- 2 Tim. 2:8, Jesus raised from dead according to the gospel
- 2 Tim. 2:11-12, Suffer and live with Christ
- 2 Tim. 2:18, Resurrection past, claim of heretics
- Hebrews
- Heb. 1:3, Purged sins-set down in heaven
- Heb. 2:9, Jesus made lower for the suffering of death
- Heb. 2:14, Death-destroyed him who had power over death
- Heb. 5:3, Offer for sins
- Heb. 6:2, Resurrection of the dead
- Heb. 6:6, Crucify Son of God afresh
- Heb. 7:16, Power of an endless life
- Heb. 9:7-28, Blood, death
- Heb. 9-10, Blood and death
- Heb. 10:12, Blood
- Heb. 10:28, Sacrifice for sins
- Heb. 10:29, Blood of [New] Covenant
- Heb. 11:35, Better resurrection
- Heb. 12:2, Endured cross-throne of God now
- Heb. 12:24, Jesus mediator of New Covenant with blood
- Heb. 13:12, Jesus suffered, blood sanctifies us
- Heb. 13:20, God brought Jesus back from dead, the blood of the covenant
- James
- 1 Peter
- 1 Pet. 1:2, Sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ
- 1 Pet. 1:3, Resurrection of Jesus from dead
- 1 Pet. 1:19, Redeemed with the blood of Christ
- 1 Pet. 1:21, God raised Jesus
- 1 Pet. 2:21, Christ suffered for us leaving an example
- 1 Pet. 2:24, Bore sins, tree, healed
- 1 Pet. 3:18, Put to death in the flesh, quickened by Spirit
- 1 Pet. 3:18-20, Death, hell, resurrection, exalted
- 1 Pet. 4:1, Suffered in flesh
- 1 Pet. 4:13, Christ’s sufferings
- 1 Pet. 5:1, Witness of Jesus’ suffering
- 2 Peter
- 2 Pet. 1:16, Witnesses of His majesty-transfiguration*
- 1 John
- 1 John 1:2-3, Witnesses*
- 1 John 1:7, Blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin
- 1 John 2:2, Jesus is the propitiation for our sins
- 1 John 3:16, Jesus laid down His life for us
- 1 John 4:10, Son payment for our sins
- 1 John 5:6, 8, Came by water and blood-bears witness
- 2 John
- 3 John
- Jude
- Revelation
- Rev. 1:5, First begotten of the dead, washed us in His blood
- Rev. 1:7, Pierced-Zech 12:10
- Rev. 1:18, Lived, died and arose
- Rev. 5:6, Lamb slain
- Rev. 5:9, Redeemed by the blood
- Rev. 5:12, Lamb slain
- Rev. 7:14, Washed robes, white by the blood of Lamb
- Rev. 11:8, Lord crucified
- Rev. 11, Witnesses raised*
- Rev. 12:11, Overcame by the blood of the Lamb
- Rev. 13:8, Book of Lamb slain from the foundation of the world-Lamb reference
- Rev. 16:6, Blood to drink*
- Rev. 19:13, Vesture dipped in blood-Jesus
- Rev. 20:5-6, First resurrection*
- implied in the text