Question: Please discuss the passage in 1 Peter 3 concerning preaching to the “spirits in prison”. Note that verse 20 indicates that this preaching took place in “the days of Noah”.
Answer: Before we attempt to discuss this issue, we will first present the entire passage:
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: by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; 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. (1 Peter 3:18-20)
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Author: The Advocate
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Bible reference(s): 1 Peter 3:18-20, 1 Peter 4:6
Source: “Question Box,” The Christadelphian Advocate.
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