properly · verb — present active participle, nominative plural masculine
Sir
κύριε,kurie
G2962
supreme in authority · noun — vocative singular masculine
remember
μνάομαιmnáomai
G3415
to bear in mind
that
ὅτιhoti
G3754
demonstrative · conjunction
that
ἐκεῖνοςekeinos
G1565
that one (or (neuter) thing) · demonstrative pronoun — nominative singular masculine
deceiver
πλάνοςplanos
G4108
roving (as a tramp) · adjective — nominative singular masculine
said
εἶπενeipen
G2036
to speak or say (by word or writing) · verb — second aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular
was
ζῶν·zōn
G2198
to live (literally or figuratively) · verb — present active participle, nominative singular masculine
yet
ἔτιeti
G2089
"yet · adverb
alive
ζάωzáō
G2198
to live (literally or figuratively)
After
μετὰmeta
G3326
properly · preposition
three
τρεῖςtreis
G5140
"three" · adjective — accusative plural feminine
days
ἡμέραςhēmeras
G2250
day · noun — accusative plural feminine
again
ἐγείρομαι.egeiromai
G1453
to waken (transitively or intransitively) · verb — present passive indicative, 1st person singular
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Cross-references
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…
Matthew 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 ch…
Matthew 17:23 And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again. And they were exceeding sorry.
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 scribe…
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.
Luke 18:33 And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again.
John 2:19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
Matthew 26:61 And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Matthew 27:63
Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver--Never, remarks BENGEL, will you find the heads of the people calling Jesus by His own name. And yet here there is betrayed a certain uneasiness, which one almost fancies they only tried to stifle in their own minds, as well as crush in Pilate's, in case he should have any lurking suspicion that he had done wrong in yielding to them.
said, while he was yet alive--Important testimony this, from the lips of His bitterest enemies, to the reality of Christ's death; the corner-stone of the whole Christian religion.
After three days--which, according to the customary Jewish way of reckoning, need signify no more than "after the commencement of the th…
Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said,.... Meaning Jesus; for no better name could they give him alive or dead, and they chose to continue it; and the rather to use it before Pilate, who had a good opinion of his innocence; and to let him see, that they still retained the same sentiments of him: "a deceiver", is with the Jews (x),
"a private person, that deceives a private person; saying to him there is a God in such a place, so it eats, and so it drinks; so it does well, and so it does ill.
But which can never agree with Jesus, who was not a private person, but a public preacher; and who taught men, not privately, but openly, in the temple and in the synagogues; nor did he tea…
Matthew 27:62-66
Matthew 27:62-66
62. And the next day, which is after the preparation, [297] the chief priests and Pharisees came to Pilate, 63. Saying, Sir, we remember that that impostor said, while he was still alive, After three days I shall rise again. 64. Command, therefore, that the sepulcher be made secure till the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come by night to steal him, and say to the people, He is risen from the dead; and the last error shall be worse than the first. 65. Pilate saith to them, You have a guard; go, make it as secure as you can. 66. And they went and made the sepulcher secures sealing the stone, and posting guards.
Matthew 27:62. And the next day. In thi…
The Church Fathers
('Aug. in Serm.' non occ.) He rose again after three days, to signify the consent of the whole Trinity in the passion of the Son; the three days' space is read figuratively, because the Trinity which in the beginning made man, the same in the end restores man by the passion of Christ.
The Chief Priests although in putting the Lord to death they had committed a heinous crime, yet were they not satisfied unless even after His death they carried on the venom of their malice once begun, traducing His character, and calling one, whom they knew to be guileless, a deceiver. (John 11:49.) But as Caiaphas prophesied without knowing it, that it is expedient that one man should die for the people, so now, Christ was a deceiver, not from truth into error, but leading men from error to truth, from vices to virtue, from death to life.
They say that He had declared, After three days I will rise again, in consequence of that He said above, As Jonas was three days and, three nights in the whale's belly, &c. (Matt. 12:40.) But let us see in what way He can be said to have risen again after three days. Some would have the three hours of darkness understood as one night, and the light succeeding the darkness as a day, but these do not know the force of figurative language. The sixth day of the week on which He suffered comprehended the foregoing night; then follows the night of the Sabbath with its own day, and the night of the Lord's day includes also its own day; and hence it is true that He rose again after three days.
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Dictionary and topics
Resurrection Of Christ, The · Fraud impossible in — Fraud impossible in
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This incident bolsters the truth of Jesus’ resurrection—it is inconceivable that Matthew would fabricate such a story since witnesses abounded who could have countered the claims.
