For they still did not understand from the Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.
Parallel translations
- WEB For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
- KJV For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
- NKJV For as yet they did not know the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead.
- NASB For they did not yet understand the Scripture, that He must rise from the dead.
- NLT for until then they still hadn’t understood the Scriptures that said Jesus must rise from the dead.
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As yet the disciples did not understand the Scripture that Jesus must rise. Their faith outran their full grasp of God's plan.
Overview
John candidly admits the disciples had not yet understood the Old Testament's witness that the Messiah must rise (e.g., Psalm 16:10; Isaiah 53). Their belief was not the product of prior expectation but a response to the empty tomb. Only after the resurrection did the Scriptures' meaning become clear, as Jesus himself later opened their minds (Luke 24:45-46).
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- Ps 16:10For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
- Isa 25:8He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.
- Isa 53:10–12Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
- Isa 26:19Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.
- Luke 24:44–46Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”
- 1 Cor 15:4that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
- Luke 24:26Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then to enter His glory?”
- Hos 13:14I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.
- Matt 22:29Jesus answered, “You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.
- Mark 9:31–32because 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 18:33–34They will flog Him and kill Him, and on the third day He will rise again.”
- Mark 9:9–10As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus admonished them not to tell anyone what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
- Ps 22:22–31I will proclaim Your name to my brothers; I will praise You in the assembly.
- Mark 8:31–33Then He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and that He must be killed and after three days rise again.
- John 2:22After He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this. Then they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.
- Matt 16:21–22From 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.
- Luke 9:45But they did not understand this statement. It was veiled from them so that they could not comprehend it, and they were afraid to ask Him about it.
- Ps 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.
- 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.
- Acts 2:25–32David says about Him: ‘I saw the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
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