Matthew 27:63

They said, “Sir, we remember that when that deceiver was alive, he said, 'After three days will I rise again.'

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Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.

In Context

62The next day, which was the day after the Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together with Pilate.

64Therefore command that the tomb be made secure until the third day, otherwise his disciples may come and steal him and say to the people, 'He has risen from the dead,' and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

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Cross References

Matthew 16:21From that time Jesus started to tell his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem, suffer many things at the hand of the elders and chief priests and scribes, be killed, and be raised back to life on the third day.

Matthew 20:19and will deliver him to the Gentiles for them to mock, to flog, and to crucify him. But on the third day he will be raised up.”

Mark 8:31He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and would be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and would be killed, and after three days rise up.

Luke 9:22saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and he will be killed and on the third day be raised.”

Luke 23:2They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting our nation, forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

John 2:19Jesus replied, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

Matthew Henry on Matthew 27:58-66

The Burial of Christ. 57 When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathæa, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple: 58 He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. 59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed. 61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting… Read the whole commentary →

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