Mark 8:31 → Hosea 6:2

The "after three days" resurrection timing in the passion predictions (Mark 8:31; 9:31; 10:34) has been connected by NT scholars to Hosea 6:2 — "After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence." In Hosea's context, the words are Israel's own hope of national restoration after judgment, voiced in its call to return (6:1-3) and answered by YHWH's rebuke of its fleeting loyalty (6:4); but the "third day" timing is resonant enough that Paul's "raised on the third day according to the Scriptures" (1 Corinthians 15:4) is long read to include it, and Luke's "This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day" (Luke 24:46) follows its Greek wording. Hosea 6:2 provides the scriptural hope of divine restoration on the third day — a hope that reaches Christ's resurrection through corporate solidarity, as the one Israelite raised first, in whom His people are raised. The passion predictions thus embed within their timing a scriptural signal: the resurrection is not an accident but follows a divinely ordered pattern attested in Israel's own hope for national restoration.