Matthew 28:6
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He is not here; He has risen, just as He said! Come, see the place where He lay.
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But he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here! See the place where they put Him.
For 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.
From 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.
but they did not find His body. They came and told us they had seen a vision of angels, who said that Jesus was alive.
“Sir,” they said, “we remember that while He was alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’
Jesus 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.”
They will kill Him, and on the third day He will be raised to life.” And the disciples were deeply grieved.
The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again.
Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”
Then 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.