Matthew 27:63

and said, Sir [or Sire], we have mind (or we have remembered), that that beguiler [or that deceiver] said (while) yet living, After three days I shall rise again to life.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

62And on the tother day, that is after pask even (ing), the princes of (the) priests and [the] Pharisees came together to Pilate, (And in the morning of the next day, that was after the evening of the Passover, the high priests, and the Pharisees came together to Pilate,)

64Therefore command thou, that the sepulchre be kept (or guarded) into the third day; lest his disciples come, and steal him, and say to the people, He hath risen from death [or He is risen from (the) dead]; and the last error shall be worse than the former (or and then the last lie shall be worse than the first lie).

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Cross References

Matthew 16:21From that time Jesus began to show to his disciples, that it behooved him to go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things, of the elder men [or of the elders], and of the scribes, and of (the) princes of (the) priests, (or and suffer many things, from the elders, and from the scribes, and from the high priests); and be slain, and the third day to rise again.

Matthew 20:19And they shall betake him to (the) heathen men, for to be scorned, and scourged, and crucified, (or And they shall deliver him unto the Gentiles, to be scorned, and scourged, and crucified); and the third day he shall rise again to life.

Mark 8:31And he began to teach them, that it behooveth man’s Son to suffer many things, and to be reproved of the elder men, and of the highest priests, and of the scribes, (or and to be rejected by the elders, and by the high priests, and by the scribes), and to be slain, and after three days, to rise again.

Luke 9:22and said these things, For it behooveth man’s Son to suffer many things, and to be reproved of the elder men, and of the princes of (the) priests, and of the scribes, (or and to be rejected by the elders, and by the high priests, and by the scribes), and to be slain, and the third day to rise again.

Luke 23:2And they began to accuse him, and said, We have found this (man) turning upside-down our folk, and forbidding tribute to be given to the emperor, and saying that himself is Christ a king. [Forsooth they began to accuse him, saying, We have found this man turning upside-down our folk, and forbidding tribute to be given to Caesar, and saying himself to be Christ (a) king.] (And they began to accuse him, and said, We have found this man turning our nation upside-down, subverting our people, and forbidding taxes to be paid to Caesar, and saying that he is the Messiah, a king.)

John 2:19Jesus answered, and said to them, Undo ye this temple (or Destroy this temple), and in three days I shall raise it (up again).

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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