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NASB | Revelation 1:18 and the living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 1:18 and the Ever-living One [living in and beyond all time and space]. I died, but see, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of [absolute control and victory over] death and of Hades (the realm of the dead). |
Bible Question: Jesus went into hell and took the keys from Satan to death, hell and the grave. Rev 1:18 and Eph 4:9 are the only scriptures I have found. Is there an actual scripture saying this? |
Bible Answer: Nowhere in the Bible does it say that Jesus went to hell to retrieve the keys to death or hell or the grave. Nowhere, not even in Revelation 1:18 where the word keys is used ("the keys of death and of Hades"), does it say that: Christ WENT TO HELL or that he TOOK BACK KEYS or that Satan at any time HAD CUSTODY of any keys. In the entire King James Version of the Bible, the word "key" appears in 6 verses. The word "keys" appears in 2 verses. Thus, "key" and "keys" appear a total of 8 times in the KJV. |