Where Did Jesus Die? — Page 118
? 118 some sentences in these books in support of Paul’s theory. It must also be remembered that the words of this prophecy differ in each Gospel. Thus, Matthew says that when Jesus told his disciples that he would be betrayed into the hands of men and they would kill him, ‘and the third day he should be raised again. And they were exceedingly sorry’. 1 This passage shows that they understood what he said and were sorry about it. Luke says that he told them that he would be delivered into the hands of men. ‘But they understood not this saying and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not they feared to ask him of that saying. 2 And it appears from the fourth Gospel that they had no knowledge of any prophecy to the effect that he must rise again from the dead. 3 And Mark says that when Mary Magdalene told the Disciples, as they mourned and wept that Jesus was alive and had been seen of her, they dis- believed. After that he appeared unto two and when the two told the rest, neither did they believe. Then he appeared to the eleven and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen. 4 Their lamentation and their disbelief in the news of his res- urrection, show they had no knowledge of any prophecy of this kind. Thirdly, it can be said that the second part of this prophecy: ‘That he would be raised on the third day’, was not fulfilled to the very words. According to John 20:1 and Luke 24:1, he was in the 1. Matt. 17:23 2. Luke 9–45 and Mark 9:32 3. John 20:9 4. Mark 16:10–14