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NASB | Luke 23:46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, "Father, INTO YOUR HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT." Having said this, He breathed His last. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 23:46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, "Father, INTO YOUR HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT!" Having said this, He breathed His last. [Ps 31:5] |
Bible Question:
Does anyone have a specific Bible referrence that discusses where Jesus was during the three days after his death and before his resurrection? The Apostle's Creed states he was in Hell for 3 days. A song our worship leader had us sing in church last week had a passage in it about our certainty that he spent 3 days in Hell. I have been unable to find any reference that addresses this. Thanks. DoubleEdged |
Bible Answer: Good question! How often do we recite this creed without thinking about that? The only reference to this is 1 Peter 3:19. I am curious why you find this important? The Apostle's Creed was made up and then changed many times after the Bible was finished. It originally said something like he "died and went into the grave". Then a few hundred years later someone changed it to "descended into hell" (it doesn't say He spent the whole 3 days there). When I recite the Apostle's Creed I think "He went through hell" and of the terrible suffering Jesus endured on the Cross for me, that He was dead and in the grave, and He came out alive. That, I believe, is the intention of that part of the Creed. Other than the little snippet from 1 Peter, what really happened during those 3 days is a mystery that was chosen not to be revealed. 1 Peter 3:18-20 NIV 18For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit, 19through whom[4] also he went and preached to the spirits in prison 20who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, |