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1 Corinthians 15:4

And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

KJV

καὶ ὅτι ἐτάφη, καὶ ὅτι ἐγήγερται τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ τρίτῃ κατὰ τὰς γραφάς,

Greek NT

et quia sepultus est, et quia resurrexit tertia die secundum Scripturas :

Vulgate

and that he was buried; and that he hath been raised on the third day according to the scriptures;

ASV

And that he was buried: and that he rose again according to the scriptures:

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γραφή
graphe
noun · 50×
θάπτω
thapto
verb · 11×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κατά
kata
preposition · 470×
τρίτος
tritos
adjective · 56×
ἐγείρω
egeiro
verb · 143×
ἡμέρα
emera
noun · 388×
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: ἡμέρᾳ τῇ τρίτῃ | WH/Treg/NIV: ἡμέρᾳ τῇ τρίτῃ | RP: τρίτῃ ἡμέρᾳ
  • ἡμέρᾳ τῇ τρίτῃSBLGNT
  • ἡμέρᾳ τῇ τρίτῃWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • τρίτῃ ἡμέρᾳRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Doctrines that cite this verse

Miracle

Historic Christian voices

17 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Christ did truly rise again from death, and took again his body, with flesh, bones, and all things appertaining to the perfection of man's nature; wherewith he ascended into heaven, and there sitteth, until he return to judge all men at the last day.
Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and was also of Mary; who was truly born, and did eat and drink. He was truly persecuted under Pontius Pilate; He was truly crucified, and truly died, in the sight of beings in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth. He was also truly raised from the dead, His Father quickening Him.
And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary; suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended into hell; the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead. …
Who for us men, and for our salvation, came down and was incarnate and was made man; he suffered, and the third day he rose again, ascended into heaven; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
Q. Why was he buried? A. His burial testifies that he really died.
We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
Christ did truly rise again from the dead, and took again his body, with all things appertaining to the perfection of man's nature, wherewith he ascended into heaven, and there sitteth until he return to judge all men at the last day.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God. The Scriptures declare: His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His substitutionary work on the cross, His bodily resurrection from the dead, and His exaltation to the right hand of God.
Apostles' Creed · 2 passages
Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried.
The third day He rose again from the dead.
The Apostles' Creed, as the Baptismal Symbol; and the Nicene Creed, as the sufficient statement of the Christian faith.
We believe that the salvation of sinners is wholly of grace, through the mediatorial offices of the Son of God; who by the appointment of the Father, freely took upon Him our nature, yet without sin; honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and by His death made a full atonement for our sins; that having risen from the dead, He is now enthroned in heaven; and uniting i…
Tertullian presents the Rule of Faith as a summary of apostolic teaching: belief in one God the Creator, in Jesus Christ His Son born of the Virgin, who suffered, died, was raised, and will return to judge. This rule is the benchmark against which all doctrines are tested. What agrees with it is true; what departs from it is heresy.
Catechetical Lectures · 2 passages
Cyril presents the ten chief doctrines that every baptismal candidate must know: God the Father, Christ the Son, the Holy Spirit, the Virgin Birth, the Crucifixion, the Burial, the Resurrection, the Ascension, the Judgment, and the one holy catholic Church. He insists that the faith must be learned precisely from Scripture and confessed exactly as received, without adding or su…
Christ rose bodily from the dead on the third day, and the empty tomb is the proof that His body did not see corruption. He appeared to His disciples with the wounds still visible — Thomas placed his hand in the nail marks. If Christ is not risen, our faith is vain; but He is risen, and His resurrection is the pledge of our own. Cyril lists the witnesses: the women, the apostle…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 15:16 — For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
  • 1Pet 1:11 — Searching 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.
  • 2Tim 2:8 — Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:
  • Acts 1:3 — To 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:
  • Acts 2:23 — Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
  • Acts 13:29 — And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
  • Acts 13:29 — And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
  • Acts 17:31 — Because 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
  • Acts 26:22 — Having 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:
  • Col 2:12 — Buried 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.
  • Gen 22:4 — Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
  • Heb 13:20 — Now 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,
  • Hos 6:2 — After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
  • Hos 6:2 — After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
  • Isa 53:9 — And 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.
  • John 2:19 — Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
  • John 19:38 — And 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 therefo
  • John 20:9 — For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
  • Jonah 1:17 — Now 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.
  • Lev 7:17 — But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire.
  • Luke 9:22 — Saying, 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 18:32 — For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on:
  • Luke 23:50 — And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; and he was a good man, and a just:
  • Luke 24:5 — And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?
  • Luke 24:26 — Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
  • Luke 24:46 — And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
  • Mark 8:31 — And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
  • Mark 9:31 — For 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.
  • Mark 10:33 — Saying, 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:
  • Mark 10:34 — And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.
  • Mark 14:28 — But after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee.
  • Mark 15:43 — Joseph 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.
  • Mark 16:2 — And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
  • Matt 12:40 — For 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.
  • Matt 16:21 — From 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
  • Matt 20:19 — And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.
  • Matt 27:57 — When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus’ disciple:
  • Matt 27:63 — Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
  • Matt 28:1 — In 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.
  • Matt 28:7 — And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.