John 20:9

for they did not yet understand the Scripture, That it behooved Him to rise from the dead.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.

In Context

8Then the other disciple also came in, the one having come first to the sepulcher, and saw, and believed;

10Then the disciples departed again to their own comrades.

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Cross References

Matthew 16:21And from this time Jesus began to show to His disciples, that it behooves Him to go away to Jerusalem, and to suffer many things from the elders and the chief priest and the scribes, and to be killed, and rise the third day.

Mark 8:31And He began to teach them, that it behooves the Son of man to suffer many things, and to be rejected by the elders, and the chief priests and the scribes, and to be killed, and after three days to rise.

Mark 9:31For He was teaching His disciples, and saying to them, The Son of man is betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill Him; and having been killed, He will rise again the third day.

Matthew Henry on John 20:2-11

The Resurrection. 1 The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. 2 Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him. 3 Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre. 4 So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun… Read the whole commentary →

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