Quotes About Death

One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abrahamís side. And the rich man also died and was buried.

“Where, Lord?” they asked. Jesus answered, “Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.”

Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a wife, but died childless.

and the third married the widow, and in the same way all seven died, leaving no children.

And last of all, the woman died.

You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you will be put to death.

and the chief priests and scribes were looking for a way to put Jesus to death; for they feared the people.

Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed it in a tomb cut into the rock, where no one had yet been laid.

As the women bowed their faces to the ground in terror, the two men asked them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?

Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.

Again He said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for Me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”

“Now we know that You have a demon!” declared the Jews. “Abraham died, and so did the prophets, yet You say that anyone who keeps Your word will never taste death.

No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from My Father.”

When Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

After He had said this, He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up.”

They thought that Jesus was talking about actual sleep, but He was speaking about the death of Lazarus.

So Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead,

When Jesus arrived, He found that Lazarus had already spent four days in the tomb.

And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”

But some of them asked, “Could not this man who opened the eyes of the blind also have kept Lazarus from dying?”

“Take away the stone,” Jesus said. “Lord, by now he stinks,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man. “It has already been four days.”

You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”

Caiaphas did not say this on his own. Instead, as high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation,