(For they did not yet understand the scripture that Jesus must rise from the dead.)

They kept this statement to themselves, discussing what this rising from the dead meant.

and said to them, “Thus it stands written that the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day,

that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.”

Then Jesus began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

not by all the people, but by us, the witnesses God had already chosen, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and to rise from the dead, saying, “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ.”