John 20:9

God's Word

They didn’t know yet what Scripture meant when it said that Jesus had to come back to life.

Cross References

Psalm 16:10

because you do not abandon my soul to the grave or allow your holy one to decay.

Psalm 22:15

My strength is dried up like pieces of broken pottery. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me down in the dust of death.

Isaiah 25:8

He will swallow up death forever. The Almighty Lord will wipe away tears from every face, and he will remove the disgrace of his people from the whole earth. The Lord has spoken.

Isaiah 26:19

Your dead will live. Their corpses will rise. Those who lie dead in the dust will wake up and shout for joy, because your dew is a refreshing dew, and the earth will revive the spirits of the dead.

Hosea 13:14

“I want to free them from the power of the grave. I want to reclaim them from death. Death, I want to be a plague to you. Grave, I want to destroy you. I won’t even think of changing my plans.”

Matthew 22:29

Jesus answered, “You’re mistaken because you don’t know the Scriptures or God’s power.

Luke 24:26

Didn’t the Messiah have to suffer these things and enter into his glory?”

Luke 9:45

They didn’t know what he meant. The meaning was hidden from them so that they didn’t understand it. Besides, they were afraid to ask him about what he had said.

John 2:22

After he came back to life, his disciples remembered that he had said this. So they believed the Scripture and this statement that Jesus had made.

Acts 17:3

He explained and showed them that the Messiah had to suffer, die, and come back to life, and that Jesus, the person he talked about, was this Messiah.

Acts 2:24

But God brought him from death back to life and destroyed the pains of death, because death had no power to hold him.

1 Corinthians 15:4

He was placed in a tomb. He was brought back to life on the third day as the Scriptures predicted.