1 Corinthians 15:4

Christ was buried and raised on the third day according to the Scriptures. It matters because the bodily resurrection is the core fact the gospel proclaims.

Cross-references · 33

• Hos 6:2After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.
• Matt 12:40For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
• Ps 16:10–11For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
• Acts 26:22–23But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:
• Acts 13:29–37When they had carried out all that was written about Him, they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a tomb.
• Isa 53:9–12He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.
• Luke 24:46And He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,
• Jonah 1:17Now the LORD had appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of the fish.
• Ps 2:7I will proclaim the decree spoken to Me by the LORD: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.
• 1 Cor 15:16–21For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.
• Luke 24:26Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then to enter His glory?”
• Rom 6:4We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.
• Luke 9:22“The Son of Man must suffer many things,” He said. “He must be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.”
• Luke 24:5–7As the women bowed their faces to the ground in terror, the two men asked them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?
• Acts 2:23–33He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.
• Heb 13:20Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,
• Col 2:12And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.
• Mark 16:2–7Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they went to the tomb.
• Matt 27:57–60When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph, who himself was a disciple of Jesus.
• Matt 27:63–64“Sir,” they said, “we remember that while He was alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’
• Matt 28:1–6After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb.
• Luke 18:32–33He will be delivered over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and insulted and spit upon.
• John 2:19–22Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”
• Matt 20:19and will deliver Him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. And on the third day He will be raised to life.”
• Mark 9:31because He was teaching His disciples. He told them, “The Son of Man will be delivered into the hands of men. They will kill Him, and after three days He will rise.”
• Luke 23:50–53Now there was a Council member named Joseph, a good and righteous man,
• Acts 17:31For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
• Acts 1:3After His suffering, He presented Himself to them with many convincing proofs that He was alive. He appeared to them over a span of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.
• Mark 10:33–34“Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes. They will condemn Him to death and will deliver Him over to the Gentiles,
• Matt 16:21From that time on Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and that He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.
• 1 Pet 1:11trying to determine the time and setting to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.
• John 19:38Afterward, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus (but secretly for fear of the Jews), asked Pilate to let him remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he came and removed His body.
• Mark 15:43–46Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent Council member who himself was waiting for the kingdom of God, boldly went to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus.

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