Matthew 27 : 50-53...Where are they now ?

ewq1938 said:

Immortality comes at the second coming. No one but God is currently immortal...save perhaps the heavenly angels but no humans would be yet. So, anyone resurrected from the dead would be resurrected back to a mortal status and would die again.

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Maybe. There is also the concept of first fruits, of which Jesus was definitely one.

JIMINZ said:

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Why would this event not be considered to be, the first Resurrection?

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Lazarus who was dead for more than 3 days:

John 11:39
Jesus is saying "take away ye!" the stone.
Martha is saying to Him, the sister of the one having deceased, "Lord, already he stinking, for it is fourth-day
43 And these saying, to a great Voice He cries-out "Lazarus, hither out!"

Then of course there was Jesus resurrected after 3 days.

And then the 2 witnesses:

Revelation 11:9
And are observing out of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations the bodies of them three and half-equal and the bodies of them not they suffer to be placed into tomb.
11 And after the three and a half days a breath of life out of the God entered in them
and they stand upon their feet and fear great fall upon the ones observing them.
12 And they hear a Voice great out of the Heaven saying to them "ascend ye here!" And they ascended into the heaven in the cloud....

Lazarus is only mentioned in 3 chapters of the NT....Luke 16 [parable of rich-man and Lazarus] and John chapts 11 and 12.

This parable/story concerns the resurrection, and features Lazarus, Abraham and Moses.

http://www.herealittletherealittle.net/index.cfm?page_name=Lazarus

Luke 16:22
Became yet to be dying the poor-one, and him to be carried away by the Messengers into the Bosom of Abraham.
Died yet also the rich man and was buried.

Luke 16:
30"And he said, 'No, father Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'
31 But he said to him, 'If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.' "

Yeshua uses the last two verses of this parable as an amazing prophecy of his pending resurrection from the dead.
The rich man says that although his brothers may not accept the scriptural evidence for the identity of the Messiah, they will accept the evidence of one who is raised from the dead.

But Abraham answers and plainly tells him that anyone who rejects the Bible's teaching about the Messiah will also refuse to acknowledge the evidence of a miraculous resurrection. This last verse is a sad prophecy about the Jews who, despite God's resurrection of His son from the power of the grave, have failed to recognize Yeshua as the prophesied Messiah.

rmb60 said:

Matthew 27 : 50-53...Where are they now ?

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The same place as Lazarus, the man Jesus brought back from the dead. Later, Lazarus died again, just as those referred to in Matthew 27:52.