After this, he appeared to more than five hundred other followers. Most of them are still alive, but some have died.
Then Jesus said, "Don't be afraid! Tell my followers to go to Galilee. They will see me there."
Now go and tell his disciples, and especially Peter, that he will go ahead of you to Galilee. You will see him there, just as he told you."
When David was alive, he obeyed God. Then after he died, he was buried in the family grave, and his body decayed.
He knelt down and shouted, "Lord, don't blame them for what they have done." Then he died.
And those people who died after putting their faith in him are completely lost.
But Christ has been raised to life! And he makes us certain that others will also be raised to life.
My friends, we want you to understand how it will be for those followers who have already died. Then you won't grieve over them and be like people who don't have any hope.
Our Lord Jesus told us that when he comes, we won't go up to meet him ahead of his followers who have already died.
and say, "Didn't your Lord promise to come back? Yet the first leaders have already died, and the world hasn't changed a bit."