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, and we will live before him.
• Matt 12:40For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
• Ps 16:10–11For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.
• Acts 26:22–23Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,
• Acts 13:29–37When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.
• Isa 53:9–12They made his 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 24:46He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,
• Jonah 1:17Yahweh 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 tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.
• 1 Cor 15:16–21For if the dead aren’t raised, neither has Christ been raised.
• Luke 24:26Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”
• Rom 6:4We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
• Luke 9:22saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.”
• Luke 24:5–7Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?
• Acts 2:23–33him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;
• Heb 13:20Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
• Col 2:12having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
• Mark 16:2–7Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.
• Matt 27:57–60When evening had come, a rich man from Arimathaea, named Joseph, who himself was also Jesus’ disciple came.
• Matt 27:63–64saying, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’
• Matt 28:1–6Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.
• Luke 18:32–33For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.
• John 2:19–22Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
• Matt 20:19and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up.”
• Mark 9:31For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, “The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise again.”
• Luke 23:50–53Behold, a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man
• Acts 17:31because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
• Acts 1:3To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God’s Kingdom.
• Mark 10:33–34“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles.
• Matt 16:21From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.
• 1 Pet 1:11searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them.
• John 19:38After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus’ body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body.
• Mark 15:43–46Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for God’s Kingdom, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body.

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