John Chapter 20 verse 9 Holy Bible
For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
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For at that time they had no knowledge that the Writings said that he would have to come again from the dead.
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for they had not yet known the scripture, that he must rise from among [the] dead.
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For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
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For as yet they didn't know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
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for not yet did they know the Writing, that it behoveth him out of the dead to rise again.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9. - For not as yet did they know (η΅ιδεισαν has an imperfect, not pluperfect tense) the Scripture, which, if rightly interpreted, ought to have made them triumphant in the hour of the Lord's deepest humiliation, and ought to have convinced them that the ideal Sufferer of Psalm 22. would prove to be Lord of all; and that the Lamb of God of Isaiah 53. must see his seed, and prolong his days; that God's "Holy One" of Psalm 16. could not see corruption; that the Messiah of a hundred prophetic hopes must conquer all his foes. The words of Jesus himself, in the memory of John and that of the synoptists, had been dark and confused, and they had not put all together into one glorious conviction that he must (δεῖ, by a Divine necessity) rise from among the dead; nor had they grasped the fact that it was not possible that he should be holden in the travail-pangs of death. The signs which John saw now brought all his hopes together.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) For as yet they knew not the scripture.--This explains in what sense it was that St. John now believed. Up to this time they knew not the meaning of the Scripture which foretold the Resurrection; but from that moment at least they recognised in the fact of the absent body of Christ the truth that He must rise again. (Comp. Notes on John 2:21-22.)That he must rise again from the dead.--Comp. especially Notes on Luke 24:26; Luke 24:44.
