The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is the foundation of the Christian faith .

Without the
resurrection, the belief in God's saving grace through Jesus is destroyed. When Jesus rose from
the dead, he confirmed his identity as the Son of God and his work of atonement, redemption,
reconciliation, and salvation. The resurrection was literal, physical raising of Jesus body from
dead. Jesus was arrested, tried, and found guilty of claiming to be king. His body was hung on a
cross between two thieves. After his death, Jesus body was wrapped in linen cloth and place in a
tomb with a large stone rolled across the opening. On the third day, an early Sunday morning,
Mary Magdalene and another Mary came to the tomb and found it empty. Sitting on rolled away
stone was an angel of the lord who told them not to be afraid because Jesus had risen. As women
left to tell the discipline, Jesus Christ met them and showed them his nail pierced hands. The Old
and the New Testaments speak of the truth of Jesus being raised from death - Jesus testified of
his resurrection before He died on the cross and his disciples witnessed his body after the
resurrection.  Below are the Bible verses and Scriptures that both prophesize the resurrection of
Jesus and testify of the reality of the resurrected body of Christ. When Jesus returns at the end of
time, all who have died believing in Christ will have a bodily resurrection and go to Heaven with
Him. First of all, that Jesus really, really was dead. And secondly, that his disciples really and
with absolute conviction saw him again afterwards. The gospels are equally clear that it's not a
ghost. I mean, even though, the raised Jesus walks through a shop door in one of the gospels,
there he suddenly materializes in the middle of a conference his disciples are having, he's at
pains to assure them, "Touch me, feel me, it's bones and flesh." In Luke he eats a piece of fish.
Ghosts can't eat fish. So what these traditions are emphasizing again and again is that it wasn't a
vision. It wasn't a waking dream. It was Jesus raised, According to the Gospels, Jesus was
resurrected three days after his crucifixion at the hands of the Romans.The Roman authorities
For Christians, this event confirms Jesus' divinity and serves as a reminder of God's ongoing
presence in the entire world As he traveled and preached, Jesus enraged the Roman rulers, who
feared he was inciting unrest among the populace, plotting a revolution Jewish leaders also
feared him because he questioned conventional authority and teachings Jesus called out
hypocrisy when he saw it and urged his disciples to do the same a new prophetic vision to the
community Those who opposed him saw him as a risky newcomer who desired to create a cult
around himself Jesus was well aware of the accusations leveled against him by political,
religious authorities, and he predicted that he would be attacked and persecuted. After a teaching
ministry of perhaps three years, Jesus went to Jerusalem to observe the Jewish holiday of
Passover. There he warned those closest to him of his coming death and gathered them together
for a meal that would be their last supper together. He was then betrayed to the Roman
authorities by Judas, one of his followers, and was captured. He was denounced by the Jewish
high priest as a blasphemer who claimed to be the Messiah. Taken before the Roman authorities,
Jesus was charged with sedition and executed by the Roman practice of crucifixion, being nailed
to a cross. It was Friday and burial rites would have to wait until the Sabbath was over. Early
Sunday morning, according to all Gospel accounts, some of the women who had followed Jesus
went to his tomb to prepare his body for a proper burial. When they arrived, they discovered that
the stone at the entry to the tomb had been rolled away and the tomb was empty