I have been doing some studying on my own and came across this verse. Where is says that Jesus was made alive in the Spirit, can someone clarify this for me? According to the Jehovah's Witnesses it means he was raised as a spirit body and not physically resurrected but I know this is incorrect. Some help translating this verse would be grateful.
Its telling us that Jesus suffered and died for our sins, he entered his spiritual body went and preached resurrection to all those from that time until Noah's time that didn't have a chance of salvation through Jesus Christ.. during the 3 days before he returned...and now he is in heaven
You need to read 1 Peter 3:8-3:22 that particular verse ties all those together... 3:19- 3:22 answers your specific question
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18[/FONT] For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
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19[/FONT] By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
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20[/FONT] Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
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21[/FONT] The like figure whereunto
even baptism doth also now save us (
not the putting away of the filth of the flesh,
but the answer of a good conscience toward God,)
by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
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22[/FONT] Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him. 1 Peter 3:18-22 (KJV)
