That impostor said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again — We do not find that he had ever said this to them, unless when he spoke of the temple of his body, John 2:19, John 2:21. And if they here refer to what he then said, how perverse and iniquitous was their construction on these words, when he was on his trial before the council? Matthew 26:61. Then they seemed not to understand them!
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Matthew 27:63
63 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.