Why Did Jesus Go to Hell for Three Days?

Friday, three in the afternoon: a man dies on a cross. Sunday at dawn: the tomb is empty. And in between, the Bible gives us almost nothing. Yet for sixteen hundred years Christians have said, "He descended into hell." Is that in the Bible? Did Jesus really go to hell? Was He tortured there, as some preachers teach? In this video we go through every verse that touches the question: what hell meant in the original languages (Sheol, Hades and Gehenna are not the same), what Jesus said on the cross, what Peter said at Pentecost, the strange passage about "spirits in prison" in 1 Peter 3, the four main views in church history, why the three-days-of-torment teaching is not in the text, and the one verse in Hebrews that gives the clearest reason of all. Chapters (approximate, check against the final audio): 0:00 The moment 1:06 What the creed says 1:47 Three words, one English word 2:45 Three days 3:25 The silent Saturday 4:12 What He said on the cross 4:59 Peter at Pentecost 5:39 Into the lower regions 6:15 Two sides of the realm of the dead 7:18 The strangest passage 8:33 The gospel to the dead 9:12 Four views in history 10:15 What the Bible does not say 11:05 What we can say for certain 11:53 The clearest reason 12:48 What it means for us 13:33 Your turn Which Bible story should we look at next? Tell us in the comments. #Bible #BibleStudy #Jesus