Did Jesus really come back to life after to life after he died on the cross?

I passed on to you what was most important and what had also been passed on to me, that Christ died for our sins, just as the Scriptures said. He was buried, and he was raised from the dead on the third day, as the Scriptures said. 

1 Corinthians 15.3-4

 

Can you imagine a more astonishing miracle than a dead man coming back to life? The Bible tells us several big facts about the totally real rising again, or resurrection, of Jesus. 

First, Jesus died.(John 19.28-37) Second, Jesus was buried.(Luke 23.53) Third, Jesus really rose from the dead! You probably know that Jesus’s closest friends found his empty tomb.(Luke 24.1-7) Later his closest friends saw him alive.(Luke 24.35-49) But did you know that Jesus also appeared to hundreds of people in his fully alive body?(1 Corinthians 15.6) Jesus wanted people to know his resurrection wasn’t a crazy, made up story. He wanted to make it easy, even for us today, to believe that he is alive. 

 

 

After Jesus’s resurrection, he explained that soon he would be going back to heaven to live with his Father God. But before he left, he had some very good news. It is because he has come back to life, we can too. After you die, you can live forever with Father God and Jesus in heaven. God lies you very much, and he wants this for you. He wants you to believe in him, and wants to forgive your sin so you can live in heaven forever.