CG Didymus
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I checked out a site that tried to answer the question about a prophecy saying that Jesus would suffer, die, and rise again. This is what it said:
"Imply"? Since the gospels and Paul's writing were after the fact. How does this even come close to being "as written" or "as Scripture says"? It sounds too much, again, like Christians making the Jewish Scriptures saying what they want them to say.In Luke 24:46 He told them ,"This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day." Where in the Old Testament is the above written, particularly the rising from the dead on the Third Day?
Answer
That the Messiah was to suffer is a common theme in the prophecies of Isaiah. Four passages talk about the Servant, and each indicates a suffering servant. The passages are Isaiah 42:1-4; 49:1-7; 50:4-9; and 52:13-53:12. The most famous of these is Isaiah 53. A friend of mine has an excellent booklet that can be downloaded in PDF format, which deals in detail with these passages. It can be viewed/downloaded at http://www.padfield.com/acrobat/sermons/suffering-servant.pdf
While there is no single passage that says directly that the Messiah will rise again on the third day, there are passages that, by the Jewish manner of interpretation, imply that.