Today at work I was part of a conversation about what exactly went on for the three days between Jesus' crucification and his resurrection. The Bible, as far as I know, doesn't have a lot on the subject. I personally am of the philosophy that nothing happened. Jesus was just dead. There is another perspective that has Jesus in an epic battle against Satan himself in Hell where Jesus wins of course because he is God. This can somewhat be supported if you consider that Christ had to pay the price for our sins which may include going to Hell. Its all a little fuzzy though because he lived a perfect life and took on our sins. He fully owned them, but they where fully ours also, and in truth, still belong to us until we give them up to him. So what actually happened? I am going to start a little research on the subject to see what classical theologians thought. I hope that someone smarter than me has some contributions to make on this subject, otherwise I'm in trouble...
matt
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I think that it's unlikely, at best, that Jesus went to hell. Going to hell is not part of the atnoning work of Christ. Christ's atoning work was completed on the cross (he said himself, "It is finished.")
Peter does reference that Jesus descended before ascending. This could reference simply dying, but I think that it means that Jesus went to the place where the Old Testament saints were waiting, proclaimed the gospel to them, and then led them out to go be with the Father in heaven.
But, you're right - there's just no that much information on the subject.
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