• Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

Did Jesus go to hell during the time that he was in the grave?

Do you believe that Jesus also went into hell before His resurrection?

  • Yes

    Votes: 6 40.0%
  • No

    Votes: 5 33.3%
  • Maybe, but I am not certain?!

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other answer, please be specific in a reply.

    Votes: 4 26.7%

  • Total voters
    15

PatrickTate

Active Member
Jul 26, 2025
216
46
66
Paris, Ontario
✟3,180.00
Country
Canada
Gender
Male
Faith
Messianic
Marital Status
Married
Not in "hell".


Matthew 12:39-41
He answered, “A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now something greater than Jonah is here.
 
Reactions: bling
Upvote 0

bob121

Christian in Tokyo, Japan
May 27, 2013
15
4
Tokyo, Japan
Visit site
✟28,418.00
Country
Japan
Gender
Male
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Married
There was no need for Jesus to go to Hell. However, those held there will know and hear Christ speak with all authority, confirming that they are there due to their rejection of the only Savior who can save anyone from the just sentence passed down upon the sinner.
 
Upvote 0

Jamdoc

Watching and Praying Always
Oct 22, 2019
8,305
2,617
44
Helena
✟266,583.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Baptist
Marital Status
Single
Kinda sorta. He went to "hell" in the sense of "Hades" or "Sheol" a place of the dead, where some are tormented, and some comforted as Jesus described in Luke 16. He did not get tormented, but rather triumphed over the principalities/fallen angels that are imprisoned.
In Colossians 2:15, it is said He made a show and triumph over the principalities after dying on the cross. Basically arriving in Hades as the victor over it.
in 1 Peter 3, we have
18 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:
19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
so imprisoned spirits in Hades, He preached to them.
 
Reactions: RDKirk
Upvote 0

RDKirk

Alien, Pilgrim, and Sojourner
Site Supporter
Mar 3, 2013
42,154
22,747
US
✟1,733,354.00
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Married
I agree.

Sounds like a jailbreak to me.
 
Last edited:
Upvote 0

BelieveItOarKnot

Rom 11:32-God bound everyone to disobedience so...
Jun 2, 2024
1,361
145
71
Florida
✟59,567.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Widowed
I wouldn't put too much stock in the stories of NDEer's

Seems like the majority of them end up in some skewered forms of theology of various sorts

Although a lot of them change for the better, regardless

Hell, in the application in question is "the grave."

There are some who believe the spirits of those who passed before Christ's death were held in Abraham's bosom, as noted in Luke 16. I think that may be a credible explanation.

Most scholars do not think the translation of "hell" in the common sense of the word, meaning the LoF, is even possible, because that "hell" has not yet arrived, theoretically

But I have heard some fiery sermons about Jesus going to hell for us. A little too much sensationalism for me, usually delivered to pick the pockets of the sheep
 
Upvote 0

Lost4words

Jesus I Trust In You
Site Supporter
May 19, 2018
11,777
12,492
Neath, Wales, UK
✟1,229,582.00
Country
United Kingdom
Gender
Male
Faith
Catholic
Marital Status
Single
Jesus went down to the dead. Once he had done that, then i believe it became hell.....
 
Reactions: PatrickTate
Upvote 0

PatrickTate

Active Member
Jul 26, 2025
216
46
66
Paris, Ontario
✟3,180.00
Country
Canada
Gender
Male
Faith
Messianic
Marital Status
Married
Jesus went down to the dead. Once he had done that, then i believe it became hell.....

When extra power and energy and understanding comes to heaven the stark contrast of hell would become even more noticeable. That is a very interesting way of looking at this Lost4words.

Here is one of the questions that has interested me for decades.....
does the Kingdom of Messiah Yeshua - Jesus eventually in a sense "Invade Hades and Sheol?"

And on that note why is the name "Azazel" in Leviticus 16 verse ten in the original Hebrew?

Does "Azazel" repent and get restored to Messiah Yeshua - Jesus and does play a role similar to General Abner who led the ten tribes over to King David after King Saul died?

Take a look at verse ten in the RSV:

"but the goat on which the lot fell for Aza′zel shall be presented alive before the Lord to make atonement over it, that it may be sent away into the wilderness to Aza′zel." [Leviticus 16:10 RSV]



 
Upvote 0