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Luke 24:46

The Road to Emmaus

And He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, Luke 24:46 · Berean Standard Bible

What It Means

Luke 24:46, in plain English

He told them, 'This is what the Scriptures said would happen: the Messiah would suffer, die, and rise from the dead on the third day.'

Why it's here

It was written centuries before it happened. The suffering, the death, the resurrection — it was God's plan from the very beginning.

Who's speaking

Jesus lays out the scriptural blueprint for His death and resurrection.

Where it sits in the story

Nothing caught God off guard. The cross wasn't a tragedy that needed fixing — it was the plan that brought salvation.

A Closer Look

The scholarly reading

Jesus declares that Scripture prophesied the Messiah's suffering, death, and resurrection on the third day.

Language and setting

While no single Old Testament text explicitly states 'the Messiah will rise on the third day,' Jesus reads the Hebrew Scriptures typologically — Hosea 6:2, Jonah's three days, and Isaac's 'resurrection' on the third day (Genesis 22) collectively witness to this pattern.

Voice

Jesus summarizes the scriptural testimony concerning the Messiah's death and resurrection.

Significance

Jesus provides the hermeneutical key that the early church would use: the pattern of suffering-death-resurrection-on-the-third-day is woven throughout the Old Testament.

In context

Luke 24:44–48

44Jesus 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.”

45Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.

46And He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

47and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.

48You are witnesses of these things.

Read all of Luke 24 — Two disciples walking home in despair meet a stranger who opens the Scriptures. Their hearts burn. And then they recognize Him.

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