KJV King James Version
For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
John 20:9
For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
For they still did not understand from the Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.
WEB World English Bible
For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
ASV American Standard Version
For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
for not yet did they know the Writing, that it behoveth him out of the dead to rise again.
Surrounding context — John 20
6 Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie,
7 And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
8 Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed.
9 For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
10 Then the disciples went away again unto their own home.
11 But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, [and looked] into the sepulchre,
12 And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
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Psalm 16:10For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.Isaiah 25:8He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken [it].Isaiah 53:10-12Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put [him] to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.Isaiah 26:19Thy dead [men] shall live, [together with] my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew [is as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.Luke 24:44-46And he said unto them, These [are] the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and [in] the prophets, and [in] the psalms, concerning me.1 Corinthians 15:4And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:Luke 24:26Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?Hosea 13:14I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.Matthew 22:29Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.Luke 18:33-34And they shall scourge [him], and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again.Mark 9:31-32For 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 9:9-10And as they came down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were risen from the dead.John 2:22When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.Luke 9:45But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.Psalm 22:22-31I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.Psalm 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.Mark 8:31-33And 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.Matthew 16:21-22From 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 the third day.
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