1 Corinthians 15:3,4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For I delivered unto you first of all Among the first things, and as the chief articles of the gospel, that which I also received, namely, from Christ himself; that Christ died for our sins Made atonement for them by dying; according to the Scriptures Of the Old Testament, particularly Isaiah 53:5-6; Isaiah 53:12; Daniel 9:26. He proves, first, from the Scriptures, that the Messiah was to die for the expiation of sin, and then from the testimony of a cloud of witnesses, that Jesus of Nazareth, who by his miracles had proved himself to be that Messiah, had died for men's sins accordingly. And that he was buried In consequence of his being certainly dead; and that he rose again the third day His enemies keeping guard about his dead body in vain. According to the Scriptures The Scriptures which foretold the resurrection of Christ on the third day, and to which St. Paul refers, are Psalms 16:10, (which Peter, Acts 2:31, expressly affirmed to be a prediction of that event,) and Jonah 1:17, which our Lord himself affirmed to be a typical prophecy of his continuing three days in the heart of the earth, and of his subsequent resurrection. See Matthew 12:39-40. Here we see the apostle delivered to the Corinthians, from the Lord himself, not only that he died for our sins, and rose again the third day after his death, but that these things had happened according to the prophecies of the Scriptures concerning the Christ, because by that circumstance, as well as by his resurrection, our Lord was demonstrated to be the Christ.