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Easter Bible verses

Easter holds the centre of the Christian faith: Jesus' death on the cross and his resurrection. These verses cover both, from “It is finished” in John 19 to Paul's summary of the gospel in 1 Corinthians 15. They are good to learn in the weeks before Easter and to keep all year.

13 verses · Text: New King James Version (NKJV)

  1. Mark 15:15

    So Pilate, wanting to gratify the crowd, released Barabbas to them; and he delivered Jesus, after he had scourged Him, to be crucified.

    Jesus took Barabbas place.

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  2. Mark 15:37-38

    And Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and breathed His last. Then the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.

    Jesus' death opened up the way into the Holy of Holies.

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  3. Luke 24:39

    Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have."

    Jesus' resurrection was a bodily resurrection, not only spiritual.

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  4. John 19:30

    So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, "It is finished!" And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.

    The redemptive work was totally finished on the cross and the penalty paid in full.

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  5. John 20:27-29

    Then He said to Thomas, "Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing." And Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!" Jesus said to him, "Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."

    The apostles witnessed the reality of Jesus' bodily resurrection so that you may believe without having seen.

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  6. Acts 2:24

    whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.

    Death could not hold Christ.

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  7. Romans 3:25

    whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed,

    An atonement that satisfies God's justice

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  8. Romans 5:10

    For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

    Through the death of Jesus you are reconciled to God.

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  9. 1 Corinthians 15:3-4

    For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,

    After his vicarious sacrifice Jesus rose again from death on the third day.

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  10. 1 Corinthians 15:17

    And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins!

    Jesus' resurrection proves his victory over sin.

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  11. 1 Corinthians 15:20-22

    But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.

    Death came into the world through one man: Adam, and now victory over death came into the world through one man: Jesus Christ.

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  12. Hebrews 9:12

    Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.

    The Mosaic sacrifices were foreshadows of Jesus' perfect redemptive sacrifice.

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  13. 1 John 2:2

    And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.

    An atoning sacrifice for all.

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How to learn these verses

  1. Pick one verse and play its song a few times.
  2. Cover the text and sing or say it from memory, then check.
  3. Come back to it the next day, then after a few days, then after a week.

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