Matthew 27:52
Modern Translations
New International Version
and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life.

New Living Translation
and tombs opened. The bodies of many godly men and women who had died were raised from the dead.

English Standard Version
The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised,

Berean Study Bible
The tombs broke open, and the bodies of many saints who had fallen asleep were raised.

New American Standard Bible
Also the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;

NASB 1995
The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;

NASB 1977
and the tombs were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;

Amplified Bible
The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints (God’s people) who had fallen asleep [in death] were raised [to life];

Christian Standard Bible
The tombs were also opened and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The tombs were also opened and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised.

Contemporary English Version
Graves opened, and many of God's people were raised to life.

Good News Translation
the graves broke open, and many of God's people who had died were raised to life.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The tombs were opened, and the bodies of many holy people who had died came back to life.

International Standard Version
tombs were opened, and many saints who had died were brought back to life.

NET Bible
And tombs were opened, and the bodies of many saints who had died were raised.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,

New King James Version
and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;

King James 2000 Bible
And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints that slept arose,

New Heart English Bible
The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;

World English Bible
The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;

American King James Version
And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,

American Standard Version
and the tombs were opened; and many bodies of the saints that had fallen asleep were raised;

A Faithful Version
So that the tombs were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had died, were resurrected

Darby Bible Translation
and the tombs were opened; and many bodies of the saints fallen asleep arose,

English Revised Version
and the tombs were opened; and many bodies of the saints that had fallen asleep were raised;

Webster's Bible Translation
And the graves were opened, and many bodies of saints who slept, arose,

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And the graues did open themselues, and many bodies of the Saintes, which slept, arose,

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And graues dyd open, and many bodyes of saintes which slept, arose:

Coverdale Bible of 1535
and the graues opened, and many bodies of the sayntes that slepte, arose,

Tyndale Bible of 1526
and graves dyd open: and the bodies of many sainctes which slept arose
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the holy ones who have fallen asleep, arose,

Berean Literal Bible
And the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints having fallen asleep arose.

Young's Literal Translation
and the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who have fallen asleep, arose,

Smith's Literal Translation
And the tombs were opened: and many bodies of the holy ones, having been set to sleep, were raised,

Literal Emphasis Translation
And the tombs were opened and many bodies of the saints having fallen asleep arose,

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the graves were opened: and many bodies of the saints that had slept arose,

Catholic Public Domain Version
And the tombs were opened. And many bodies of the saints, which had been sleeping, arose.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Tombs were opened, and many bodies of the Saints who were sleeping arose.

Lamsa Bible
And the tombs were opened; and the bodies of a great many saints who were sleeping in death rose up,

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
and the sepulchers were opened, and many bodies of the saints that slept, arose.

Godbey New Testament
and the tombs were opened; and many bodies of the sleeping saints arose;

Haweis New Testament
and the sepulchres were opened; and many bodies of saints, who slept, arose;

Mace New Testament
the graves opened, and the bodies of many saints who slept arose,

Weymouth New Testament
the tombs opened; and many of God's people who were asleep in death awoke.

Worrell New Testament
and the tombs were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;

Worsley New Testament
and the graves opened, and many bodies of departed saints arose,
















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