Quotes About Hope

and she saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and the other at the feet.

“Woman, why are you weeping?” they asked. “Because they have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I do not know where they have put Him.”

When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there; but she did not recognize that it was Jesus.

“Woman, why are you weeping?” Jesus asked. “Whom are you seeking?” Thinking He was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried Him off, tell me where you have put Him, and I will get Him.”

“Do not cling to Me,” Jesus said, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and tell My brothers, ëI am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.í”

Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them what He had said to her.

It was the first day of the week, and that very evening, while the disciples were together with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them. “Peace be with you!” He said to them.

After He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.

When He had said this, He breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he replied, “Unless I see the nail marks in His hands, and put my finger where the nails have been, and put my hand into His side, I will never believe.”

Eight days later, His disciples were once again inside with the doors locked, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.”

Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen Me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.

This was now the third time that Jesus appeared to the disciples after He was raised from the dead.

After His suffering, He presented Himself to them with many convincing proofs that He was alive. He appeared to them over a span of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.

And while they were gathered together, He commanded them: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift the Father promised, which you have heard Me discuss.

So when they came together, they asked Him, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”

Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.

After He had said this, they watched as He was taken up, and a cloud hid Him from their sight.

They were looking intently into the sky as He was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.

“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen Him go into heaven.”

The sun will be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and glorious Day of the Lord.

And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.í

But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches.