1 Corinthians 15:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

And that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

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

Transliteration

And that he etaphē, and that he egēgertai the tritē hēmera kata the graphas

Grammar Details

• *etaphē*: aorist passive indicative, 3rd person singular - was buried
• *egēgertai*: perfect passive indicative, 3rd person singular - has been raised
• *tritē*: dative, feminine, singular - third
• *hēmera*: dative, feminine, singular - day
• *kata*: preposition + accusative - according to
• *graphas*: accusative, feminine, plural - scriptures/writings

Word Meanings

• *etaphē*: was buried/was entombed
• *egēgertai*: has been raised/has been resurrected/has risen
• *tritē hēmera*: third day
• *kata*: according to/in accordance with/in fulfillment of
• *graphas*: scriptures/writings/sacred texts

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  and that he was buried and that he arose agayne the thyrd daye accordinge to the scriptures:

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  and that he was buried, and that he rose agayne ye thirde daye acordinge to the scriptures,

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And that he was buried, and that he arose the third day, according to the Scriptures,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And that he was buryed, and that he arose agayne the thirde day, accordyng to the scriptures:

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and that he was buried, and that he hath risen on the third day, according to the Writings,

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And he was put in the place of the dead; and on the third day he came back from the dead, as it says in the Writings;

• World English Bible (2000)

  that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures,

Referenced Verses

• Matt 12:40 : 40 For as Jonah 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.
• Hos 6:2 : 2 After two days he will revive us: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his presence.
• Acts 26:22-23 : 22 Having therefore obtained help from God, I continue to this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those which the prophets and Moses said would come: 23 That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first to rise from the dead, and should show light to the people, and to the Gentiles.
• Ps 16:10-11 : 10 For You will not leave my soul in hell; nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption. 11 You will show me the path of life: in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.
• Isa 53:9-9 : 9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, nor was there any deceit in his mouth. 10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. 11 He shall see the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge, my righteous servant shall justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
• Jonah 1:17 : 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.
• Rom 6:4 : 4 Therefore, we are buried with Him by baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
• 1 Cor 15:16-21 : 16 For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. 17 And if Christ is not risen, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins. 18 Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most miserable. 20 But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead.
• Col 2:12 : 12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also you are raised with him through the faith of the working of God, who has raised him from the dead.
• Heb 13:20 : 20 Now may the God of peace, who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
• 1 Pet 1:11 : 11 Searching for what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating, when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.
• Ps 2:7 : 7 I will declare the decree: the LORD has said to me, 'You are my Son; this day I have begotten you.'
• Matt 16:21 : 21 From that time Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised on the third day.
• Matt 20:19 : 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 27:57-60 : 57 When evening came, there came a rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple. 58 He went to Pilate and begged for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. 59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out of the rock; and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulcher, and departed.
• Matt 27:63-64 : 63 Saying, Sir, we remember that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. 64 Command therefore that the sepulcher be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say to the people, He is risen from the dead; so the last deception will be worse than the first.
• Matt 28:1-6 : 1 At the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. 2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake, for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat on it. 3 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow. 4 And for fear of him the guards trembled and became like dead men. 5 And the angel answered and said to the women, Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who was crucified. 6 He is not here, for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
• Mark 9:31 : 31 For he taught his disciples and said to them, The Son of Man is being delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him; and after he is killed, he will rise the third day.
• Mark 10:33-34 : 33 Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of Man shall be delivered to the chief priests, and to the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles: 34 And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit on him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.
• Mark 15:43-46 : 43 Joseph of Arimathea, an honorable counselor, who also waited for the kingdom of God, came and went in boldly to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus. 44 And Pilate marveled if he was already dead, and calling the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead for some time. 45 And when he was informed by the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph. 46 And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a tomb which was cut out of a rock, and rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.
• Mark 16:2-7 : 2 And very early in the morning on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb at the rising of the sun. 3 And they said among themselves, Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us? 4 And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away, for it was very large. 5 And entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a long white robe; and they were afraid. 6 And he said to them, Do not be afraid. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified; he is risen; he is not here; behold the place where they laid him. 7 But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goes before you into Galilee; there you will see him, as he said to you.
• Luke 9:22 : 22 Saying, The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.
• Luke 18:32-33 : 32 For he shall be delivered to the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and insulted, and spit upon: 33 And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and on the third day he shall rise again.
• Luke 23:50-53 : 50 And behold, there was a man named Joseph, a council member, and he was a good and just man. 51 He had not consented to their decision and action. He was from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, who also himself was waiting for the kingdom of God. 52 This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. 53 Then he took it down, wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a tomb that was cut out of stone, where no one had ever lain before.
• Luke 24:5-7 : 5 And as they were afraid and bowed their faces to the earth, they said to them, Why do you seek the living among the dead? 6 He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spoke to you when he was still in Galilee, 7 Saying, The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and rise again on the third day.
• Luke 24:26 : 26 Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory?
• Luke 24:46 : 46 And said to them, Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day:
• John 2:19-22 : 19 Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. 20 Then the Jews said, It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days? 21 But he was speaking of the temple of his body. 22 Therefore, when he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this to them; and they believed the scripture and the word which Jesus had said.
• John 19:38-20:9 : 38 After this, Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave permission. He came and took the body of Jesus. 39 And Nicodemus also came, who at first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds in weight. 40 Then they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in linen clothes with the spices, as is the custom of the Jews to bury. 41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had yet been laid. 42 There they laid Jesus because of the Jews' preparation day; for the tomb was nearby. 1 On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene came early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb. 2 Then she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him. 3 So Peter went out, and the other disciple, and came to the tomb. 4 So they both ran together, and the other disciple outran Peter and came to the tomb first. 5 And he, stooping down and looking in, saw the linen cloths lying there; yet he did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb, and saw the linen cloths lying there, 7 And the napkin that was around his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but wrapped together in a place by itself. 8 Then the other disciple, who came to the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed. 9 For as yet they did not know the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
• Acts 1:3 : 3 To whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many convincing proofs, being seen by them for forty days and speaking of things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
• Acts 2:23-33 : 23 Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken, and by lawless hands have crucified and killed: 24 Whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it. 25 For David says concerning Him: 'I saw the Lord always before me, for He is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken: 26 Therefore my heart rejoiced, and my tongue was glad; moreover, my flesh also will rest in hope: 27 For You will not leave my soul in Hades, nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption. 28 You have made known to me the ways of life; You will make me full of joy in Your presence.' 29 Men and brethren, let me speak freely to you about the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. 30 Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, He would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne, 31 He, foreseeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption. 32 This Jesus God has raised up, of which we all are witnesses. 33 Therefore, being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has poured out what you now see and hear.
• Acts 13:29-37 : 29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb. 30 But God raised him from the dead: 31 And he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people. 32 And we declare to you glad tidings, that the promise which was made to the fathers, 33 God has fulfilled the same to us, their children, in that he has raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, You are my Son, this day have I begotten you. 34 And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said this way, I will give you the sure mercies of David. 35 Therefore he says also in another psalm, You shall not allow your Holy One to see corruption. 36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, and was laid to his fathers, and saw corruption: 37 But he whom God raised again saw no corruption.
• Acts 17:31 : 31 Because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained; He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.