What did Jesus say about death and eternal life?

This is close to the heart of everything I taught, so let me draw directly from what the record preserves. The simplest summary may be what I said to Martha at the tomb of Lazarus, in John's Gospel: “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies” That moment — standing outside a sealed tomb, speaking of life — was itself the teaching made visible. To Nicodemus, I pressed deeper into what that life requires. It is not merely continued existence but a transformation: “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God” The flesh profits nothing on its own; what is needed is something born of the Spirit. And in the discourse recorded in John chapter 5, I described a coming hour with particular directness: “those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment” This is not extinction on either path — it is accountability and continuation. The thread running through all of it: death is real, but it is not the final word. Belief, transformation, and remaining in a living relationship with the Father — these are what carry a person through it. John of Patmos, writing after me in the book of Revelation, built a vivid vision of that final judgment and the new creation that follows. It is his vision, not my direct teaching, but it grows from the same root.