{"id":16105,"date":"2026-04-05T08:39:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=16105"},"modified":"2026-04-06T08:42:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:42:37","slug":"1peter-3-jesus-preaching-in-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/16105\/1peter-3-jesus-preaching-in-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"1Peter 3 &#8211; Jesus&#8217; preaching in hell?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Good morning,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I have a question about when Jesus descended into hell and preached to the spirits in hell.\u00a0 Am I remembering correctly that Jesus preached to those in hell who lived before the law and gave them the chance to be saved?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lyn<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Hi Lyn!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Yes, that is what Peter said in 1Peter 3:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"18\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Christ also suffered for sins once for all, a righteous man for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>by the which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 <span style=\"color: #000000;\">20a.<\/span> who once were unbelieving, when in the days of Noah the long-suffering of God waited while the ark was being prepared. . . .<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Thank you for the question.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning, I have a question about when Jesus descended into hell and preached to the spirits in hell.\u00a0 Am I remembering correctly that Jesus preached to those in hell who lived before the law and gave them the chance to be saved? Lyn ========== Hi Lyn! Yes, that is what Peter said in 1Peter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16106,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16105\/revisions\/16106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}