A Harmonized Chronology of the Resurrection Events |
Time/Place |
Event |
Matt |
Mark |
Luke |
John |
Acts |
1 Cor |
Friday, evening |
Women watch Joseph entomb Jesus |
27:61 |
15:47 |
23:55 |
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in Jerusalem |
Some women prepare spices that evening |
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23:56 |
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Sat. evening |
Mary M. and others buy spices after Sabbath |
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16:1 |
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Sunday, dawn |
Women depart for tomb at dawn |
28:1 |
16:2,3 |
24:1,22 |
20:1 |
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in Jerusalem |
Angel rolls stone away |
28:2,3 |
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Guards panic |
28:4 |
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Guards recover; flee to tell chief priests |
28:11-15 |
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Women arrive at tomb, find it open and empty |
28:1 |
16:4 |
24:2,3,23 |
20:1 |
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Two angels appear to the women inside tomb |
28:5 |
16:5 |
24:4 |
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Angels tell women Jesus is alive, tell the disciples |
28:5-7 |
16:6,7 |
24:5-8,23 |
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Women run off not talking to anyone along way |
28:8 |
16:8 |
24:9 |
20:2 |
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Women tell disciples, but are doubted |
28:8 |
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24:9-11 |
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Peter and John run to tomb, find it empty, return home |
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24:12,24 |
20:3-10 |
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Mary M. is back at tomb, crying |
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20:11 |
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Alone, she sees angels, then Jesus |
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16:9 |
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20:12-17 |
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She returns and tells disciples, and was doubted |
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16:10,11 |
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20:18 |
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Jesus appears to rest of women later |
28:10 |
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Afternoon |
Jesus appears to Peter; he tells group |
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24:34 |
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15:5 |
in Jerusalem |
Jesus walks with 2 men to Emmaus; has dinner with them |
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16:12 |
24:13-29 |
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Evening |
He vanishes after dinner; they return to disciples |
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16:13 |
24:30-33 |
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in Jerusalem |
Group tells them Peter saw Jesus |
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24:34 |
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They tell disciples they saw Jesus, but are doubted |
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16:13 |
24:35 |
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While explaining, Jesus appears to the group |
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16:14 |
24:36 |
20:19 |
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The group doubts it's really Him |
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24:37,38 |
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Jesus reproaches them, showing His wounds |
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16:14 |
24:38-40 |
20:20 |
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Jesus speaks with them for a while |
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24:41-43 |
20:21-23 |
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Thomas is absent; returns, doubts group |
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20:24,25 |
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8 days later |
Jesus returns; Thomas sees His wounds & believes |
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20:26-29 |
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Rest of 40 days |
Peter & others see Jesus after night fishing |
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21:1-14 |
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in Galilee |
Jesus reconciles Peter |
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21:15-23 |
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Disciples see Jesus at selected mountain |
28:16,17 |
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unknown |
Unknown or undescribed events |
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20:30-31 |
1:3 |
15:6,7 |
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21:25 |
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in Jerusalem |
Jesus gives Great Commission |
28:18-20 |
16:15-18 |
24:44-49 |
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1:6-8 |
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Disciples to wait in Jerusalem for power of Holy Spirit |
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24:49 |
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1:4,5 |
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in Bethany |
Jesus leads disciples to Mt. Olivet in Bethany |
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24:50 |
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1:12 |
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Jesus ascends to heaven |
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16:19 |
24:51 |
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1:9-11 |
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in Jerusalem |
Disciples return to Jerusalem and wait |
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24:52,53 |
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1:12-14 |
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Later |
Holy Spirit comes, church begins |
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16:20 |
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2:1-47 |
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9:1-3 |
15:8 |
Later, in |
Jesus appears to Saul of Tarsus |
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22:6 |
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Damascus |
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24:12,13 |
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9:4-6 |
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Jesus speaks to Saul |
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22:7-10 |
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26:14-18 |
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Saul's companions don't understand words |
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9:7 |
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22:9 |
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Saul joins community of believers |
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9:9-31 |
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