Bible Questions Answered: Resurrection of Christ

Bible Questions Answered:
My friends church, denies that Christ rose up from the dead. I don't think this is right.
Mary/ Ottawa, Illinois

Bible Answers:
Well, it's not right!

The Resurrection of Christ:

Matthew 16:21 KJV
From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto His disciples, how that He must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.

Matthew 26:32 KJV
But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.

Mark 9:9 KJV
And as they came down from the mountain, He charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of Man were risen from the dead.

John 2:18-22 KJV
[18] Then answered the Jews and said unto Him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
[19] Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
[20] Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
[21] But He spake of the temple of His body.
[22] When therefore He was risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

Luke 24:36-43 KJV
[36] And as they thus spake, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
[37] But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
[38] And He said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?
[39] Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself: handle Me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see Me have.
[40] And when He had thus spoken, He shewed them His hands and His feet.
[41] And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, He said unto them, Have ye here any meat?
[42] And they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.
[43] And He took it, and did eat before them.

John 20:19-29 KJV
[19] Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
[20] And when He had so said, He shewed unto them His hands and His side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord.
[21] Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as My Father hath sent Me, even so send I you.
[22] And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
[23] Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
[24] But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.
[25] The other disciples therefore said unto him (Thomas), We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into His side, I will not believe.
[26] And after eight days again His disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
[27] Then saith He to Thomas, reach hither thy finger, and behold My hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into My side: and be not faithless, but believing.
[28] And Thomas answered and said unto Him, My Lord and my God.
[29] Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen Me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

The witness of others:

Matthew 28:5-10 KJV (Angels)
[5] And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
[6] He is not here: for He is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
[7] And go quickly, and tell His disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, He goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see Him: lo, I have told you.
[8] And they departed quickly from the sepulcher with fear and great joy; and did run to bring His disciples word.
[9] And as they went to tell His disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held Him by the feet, and worshiped Him.
[10] Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell My brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see Me.

Mark 16:5-7 KJV (Angels)
[5] And entering into the sepulcher, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.
[6] And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: He is risen; He is not here: behold the place where they laid Him.
[7] But go your way, tell His disciples and Peter that He goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see Him, as He said unto you.

Luke 24:1-8 KJV
[1] Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulcher, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.
[2] And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulcher.
[3] And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.
[4] And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:
[5] And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?
[6] He is not here, but is risen: remember how He spake unto you when He was yet in Galilee,
[7] Saying, The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.
[8] And they remembered His words,

Acts 1:1-3 NLT (Luke the physician)
1 In my first book I told you, Theophilus, about everything Jesus began to do and teach
2 until the day He was taken up to heaven after giving His chosen apostles further instructions through the Holy Spirit.
3 During the forty days after His crucifixion, He appeared to the apostles from time to time, and He proved to them in many ways that He was actually alive. And He talked to them about the Kingdom of God.

Acts 2:23,24 KJV (Apostle Peter)
[23] Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
[24] Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that He should be holden of it.

Acts 3:14,15 KJV (Apostle Peter)
[14] But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
[15] And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.

Acts 10:39-41 KJV (Apostle Peter)
[39] And we are witnesses of all things which He did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:
[40] Him God raised up the third day, and shewed Him openly;
[41] Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with Him after He rose from the dead.

Acts 17:2,3 KJV (Apostle Paul)
[2] And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,
[3] Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.

Acts 26:22,23 KJV (Apostle Paul)
[22] Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:
[23] That Christ should suffer, and that He should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.

Romans 1:3,4 KJV (Apostle Paul)
[3] Concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;
[4] And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

Resurrection of Christ:

Romans 4:25 KJV
Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.

One cannot be a Christian, and doubt the resurrection of Christ!

Romans 10:9 KJV
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

I Corinthians 15:3,4 KJV
[3] For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
[4] And that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

Ephesians 1:19-21 KJV
[19] And what is the exceeding greatness of His power to usward who believe, according to the working of His mighty power,
[20] Which He wrought in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and set Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places,
[21] Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

I Thessalonians 4:14 KJV
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.

I Peter 1:3 KJV
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to His abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

The resurrected Christ appeared to:

Mary Magdalene (Mark 16:9)
Other women (Matthew 28:9)
Two other disciples (Luke 24:15)
Eleven disciples (Luke 24:36)
Peter (I Corinthians 15:5)
Ten disciples (John 20:19)
Eleven disciples (John 20:26)
At Galilee (John 21:1)
To the five hundred (I Corinthians 15:6)
Eleven disciples at Galilee (Matthew 28:17)
James (I Corinthians 15:7)
Christ's Ascension (Luke 24:50)
Apostle Paul at his conversion (Acts 9:5/ I Corinthians 15:8)

Anyone who does not believe in the bodily resurrection of Christ, is.....
Not a Christian.
Not saved.
Not filled with the Spirit of God.
Not a follower of Christ.
Not a believer in the authority, and infallibility of the Word of God.
Not some one to be associated with as a believer (II Corinthians 6:14-18/ II John 10,11/Ephesians 5:11)

The Word of God is forever clear,

I Corinthians 15:3,4 KJV
[3] For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
[4] And that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the scriptures: