Matthew 27:52-53 - The tombs broke open and the bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. They came out of the tombs, and after Jesus' resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many people.
I find it interesting that the death of Jesus caused the resurrection of many holy people right then and there. I wonder how many were raised to life. Somehow those who witnessed the resurrected people knew they were holy. Assuming their deaths were normal, their souls had been in heaven. Notice that no souls were brought back from hell -- no sparing of punishment for them.
The question of how long these people lived on earth after this resurrection often comes up. And did they have to die again? No one knows, but I have the hope and the feeling that, since God treated them specially at Jesus' death, he treated them specially and quickly by taking them directly back to heaven as soon as their witnessing work was done.
I wonder how many people in Jerusalem (the holy city) recognized them. The resurrected people must have either been well-known and easily recognizable or they must have gone specifically to those people they had known -- perhaps close friends, relatives, and coworkers.
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