Final Resurrection

Theme Focus
51 verses

Original Language

ἀνάστασιςAnastasisG386Greek (NT)

A rising up, resurrection; literally "a standing up again."

Used 42 times in the NT. The word itself (ana = up/again, stasis = standing) implies that the person was DOWN — dead, not alive elsewhere. If the dead were already conscious in heaven, anastasis would mean merely getting a new body. Martha understood it as a future event: "I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day" (John 11:24). Paul calls it the foundation of Christian hope — "if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen" (1 Cor 15:13).