Jesus’ resurrection was foretold in the Old Testament.
Psalm 16:10: You will not abandon my soul to Sheol [realm of the dead], or let your holy one see corruption.
Jesus’ resurrection from the dead is a historical fact, established by eyewitness accounts.
Acts 1:2–3: …until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.
Acts 10:40–41: God raised him on the third day and made him to appear, not to all the people but to us who had been chosen by God as witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
Acts 13:30–31: God raised him from the dead, and for many days he appeared to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.
1 Corinthians 15:3–6: I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive.
2 Peter 1:16: We did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
(See also: Matthew 28:1–9, Luke 24:13–53, John 20:1–17.)
Jesus has power to give eternal life to all who believe in Him.
John 1:12: To all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.
John 3:16: God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 5:24: Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
John 6:40: This is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
John 11:25: Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live.”
1 Peter 1:3–4: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you.
1 Corinthians 6:14: God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.
Our physical bodies will one day be resurrected and rejoin our spirits.
Job 19:25–27: I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another.
John 5:28–29: Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
1 Corinthians 15:51–54: Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:
“Death is swallowed up in victory.”
Our immortal resurrection bodies will be even more wonderful than our present ones.
Luke 20:36: They cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
Philippians 3:21: [Jesus Christ] will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
1 John 3:2: Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.