“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,”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Luke 24 contains 53 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.