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"After Three Days"

"After Three Days" "AFTER THREE DAYS" BY NORMAN WALKER According to Mt. xxvii 63, the chief priests and Pharisees went to Pilate "on the morrow, which is after the Preparation", presum- ably on Good Friday after sunset, and said: "Sir, we remember how that imposter said, while he was still alive, "A ftey three days I rise 1) again".... Neither in Matthew nor in Luke is this expression recorded as uttered by Jesus, but only words to the effect that He will be raised on the third day 2). Alone in Mark viii 31 we find Him recorded as saying, "the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. And He said this plainly". That, or a like statement, is what the Pharisees had over-heard, and now recalled before Pilate, whom they therefore requested to "order the sepulchre to be made secure until the third day" 3). Now the prevailing view of commentators is that these two expressions "after three days" and "on the third day" are equi- valent. But there are grounds for denying this, and for equating "after http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Novum Testamentum Brill

"After Three Days"

Walker, Norman
Novum Testamentum , Volume 4 (4): 261 – Jan 1, 1960
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Brill
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© 1960 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0048-1009
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1568-5365
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10.1163/156853660X00037
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"AFTER THREE DAYS" BY NORMAN WALKER According to Mt. xxvii 63, the chief priests and Pharisees went to Pilate "on the morrow, which is after the Preparation", presum- ably on Good Friday after sunset, and said: "Sir, we remember how that imposter said, while he was still alive, "A ftey three days I rise 1) again".... Neither in Matthew nor in Luke is this expression recorded as uttered by Jesus, but only words to the effect that He will be raised on the third day 2). Alone in Mark viii 31 we find Him recorded as saying, "the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. And He said this plainly". That, or a like statement, is what the Pharisees had over-heard, and now recalled before Pilate, whom they therefore requested to "order the sepulchre to be made secure until the third day" 3). Now the prevailing view of commentators is that these two expressions "after three days" and "on the third day" are equi- valent. But there are grounds for denying this, and for equating "after

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Published: Jan 1, 1960

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