Easter 2025: 25 Bible Verses About Easter
Want to know more about Easter and its significance? Here are 25 Bible verses about Easter to take your discipleship to another level.
25 Bible Verses About Easter
It’s important to understand that “Easter” as we know it is primarily a New Testament event, focusing on the resurrection of Jesus. However, there are Old Testament prophecies that foreshadow this event. Here’s a selection of 25 Bible verses, including those foreshadowing events, leading up to and including the resurrection:
Bible Verses about Easter:Old Testament (Foreshadowing):
- Genesis 3:15: “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” (This is considered the first prophecy of the Messiah.)
- Psalm 22:18: “They divide my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots.” (A prophecy of the crucifixion.)
- Isaiah 53:5: “But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are1 healed.” (A prophecy of Jesus’s2 suffering.)
- Isaiah 26:19: “Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.”3
New Testament (The Events):
- Matthew 16:21: “From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed, and on the third day be raised to life.”4 (Jesus foretells his death and resurrection.)
- Matthew 20:18-19: “We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. On the third day he will be raised to life!”5
- John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
- John 11:25-26: “Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?””6
- Luke 23:46: “Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his7 last.” (The death of Jesus.)
- John 19:41-42: “At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid. Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.”8 (The burial of Jesus)
- Matthew 28:5-6: “The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.””9 (The angel’s announcement of the resurrection.)
- Luke 24:6-7: “He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’””
- Luke 24:34:10 “and saying, “It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.””
- John 20:29: “Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.””11
Bible Verses About Easter: New Life In Christ
- Acts 2:24: “But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.”
- Acts 3:15: “You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses of this.”
- Romans12 4:25: “He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.”
- Romans 6:4: “We were therefore buried with him through13 baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.”14
- Romans 6:9: “For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.”
- Romans15 8:11: “And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because16 of his Spirit who lives in you.”17
- 1 Corinthians 15:4: “that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,”
- 1 Corinthians 15:20: “But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits18 of those who have fallen asleep.”
- 1 Corinthians 15:22: “For as in Adam all die, so19 in Christ all will be made alive.”
- 1 Peter 1:3: “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,”
- Revelation 1:18: “I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and20 Hades.”
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