Later text
Luke 24:46BSB
And He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,
Intertextuality Pair
Luke 24:46 → Hosea 6:2
Earlier text
Hosea 6:2BSB
After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.
Significance
On the evening of the resurrection the risen Jesus opens His disciples' minds to understand the Scriptures and tells them, "This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day" (Luke 24:46). The formula names no single text; its scope is everything "written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms" (Luke 24:44). Yet one prophetic verse, and only one, joins "the third day" to "raise up": Hosea 6:2. In Hosea those words are not a divine oracle. They are Israel's own hope, sung in its call to return: "Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us" (Hosea 6:1). YHWH answers the song with a rebuke of its fleeting loyalty: "What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? ... For your loyalty is like a morning mist" (Hosea 6:4). The singers' faithfulness failed; the creed they sang did not. The God who tears and heals, who kills and makes alive, would raise His people on the third day. The hope reaches Christ through corporate solidarity. The Messiah is Israel in one Man, and so He is the one Israelite raised first, on the third day, in whom His people are raised. Hosea's "that we may live in His presence" becomes the believer's future because the Head has already risen into it. The Christ who had to suffer is the Christ who has already risen, and the risen Lord who opens the Scriptures is the One every page was about. Beholding Him there, "we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory" (2 Cor 3:18).
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- Reference Type
- Allusion (following the Greek [LXX] wording)
- Connection Method(s)
- Promise-Fulfillment (corporate solidarity) + NT References (formula-marked "This is what is written")
Text-form: Luke 24:46 shares three words with the Greek of Hosea 6:2: "rise" (ἀνίστημι), "third" (τρίτος) and "day" (ἡμέρα). Within the Greek Old Testament and New Testament these three words stand together in only five verses. Three of the five are Luke's own passion sayings (Luke 18:33; 24:7; 24:46), which carry the same wording forward rather than competing with it. The one rival, the Greek of Genesis 22:3, fails on sense: there the rising is Abraham's getting up to set out, and the third day belongs to his arrival. In Hosea and in Luke the rising happens on the third day, as one event. The match follows the Greek text-form. The Greek of Hosea 6:2 reads "we shall rise up," the intransitive verb Luke uses; the Hebrew, followed by the English above, reads "He will raise us up." Hosea 6:2 is also the only verse of the Hebrew Old Testament that joins "third," "day" and "raise up."
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