Jesus' resurrection validates His words

<p>Christianity is the only religion based on the claim that its founder came back to life from the dead.  This claim validates or invalidates all other claims of Jesus, since He so pointedly claimed He would rise from the dead.</p>

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<li>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, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life."</li>

<li>Matthew 17:9 As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus instructed them, ""Don't tell anyone what you have seen, until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead."""</li>

<li>Matthew 17:22-23 When they came together in Galilee, he said to them, ""The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men. 23They will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised"

"to life."" And the disciples were filled with grief."</li>

<li>Matthew 20:18-19 "We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son

of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and the teachers of

the law. They will condemn him to death 19and will turn him over

to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. On the

third day he will be raised to life!“</li>

<li>Matthew 26:32 But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into

Galilee."</li>

<li>Mark 9:10 They kept the matter to themselves, discussing what

"rising from the dead" meant.</li>

<li>Luke 9:22 And he said, "The Son of Man must suffer many

things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers

of the law, and he must be killed and on the third day be raised

to life.”</li>

<li>John 2:19-22 Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and I

will raise it again in three days." 20The Jews replied, "It has

taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to

raise it in three days?" 21But the temple he had spoken of was

his body. 22After he was raised from the dead, his disciples

recalled what he had said. Then they believed the Scripture and

the words that Jesus had spoken.</li>

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