During His time on the earth, Jesus predicted His death and resurrection, stating that it fulfilled Scripture.
Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death, and deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify. And the third day He will rise again.(Matthew 20:18-19)
And He [Jesus] opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures. Then He 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,” (Luke 24:45-46)
The Apostle Paul wrote the following:
For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures. (1 Corinthians 15:3-4)
There are many passages in the Old Testament that talk about Jesus the Messiah’s suffering. The Scriptures about Jesus’s resurrection may be harder to find.
Here is a Bible Quiz about some (not all) of the verses that tell us that the Messiah would be raised from the dead.
