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 will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
• Matt 12:40For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
• Ps 16:10–11For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
• Acts 26:22–23Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:
• Acts 13:29–37And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
• Isa 53:9–12And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
• Luke 24:46And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
• Jonah 1:17Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
• Ps 2:7I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
• 1 Cor 15:16–21For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
• Luke 24:26Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
• Rom 6:4Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
• Luke 9:22Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.
• Luke 24:5–7And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?
• Acts 2:23–33Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
• Heb 13:20Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
• Col 2:12Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
• Mark 16:2–7And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
• Matt 27:57–60When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus’ disciple:
• Matt 27:63–64Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
• Matt 28:1–6In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
• Luke 18:32–33For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on:
• John 2:19–22Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
• Matt 20:19And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.
• Mark 9:31For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day.
• Luke 23:50–53And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; and he was a good man, and a just:
• Acts 17:31Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
• Acts 1:3To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
• Mark 10:33–34Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles:
• Matt 16:21From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
• 1 Pet 1:11Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
• John 19:38And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
• Mark 15:43–46Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.

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