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Simplified Cowboy Version

John 20:9

Until now, they hadn't understood that Jesus would come riding back from the grave.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Apostles;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible, the;   Dead, the;   Ignorance;   Mortality-Immortality;   Resurrection;   Word;   Word of God;   The Topic Concordance - Resurrection;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Resurrection of Christ, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - John the apostle;   Mary;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Burial;   Grave;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Peter;   Resurrection of Christ;   Scripture;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bible;   John, the Gospel According to;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hour;   John;   John, the Gospel of;   Mary;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - John, Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Cave ;   Foresight;   Gods;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Grave;   Mary Magdalene ;   36 Ought Must;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Smith Bible Dictionary - John, Gospel of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - John the Baptist;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Quotations, New Testament;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - New Testament;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for October 20;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For they did not yet understand the Scripture that he must rise from the dead.
King James Version (1611)
For as yet they knew not the Scripture, that hee must rise againe from the dead.
King James Version
For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
English Standard Version
for as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
New American Standard Bible
For they did not yet understand the Scripture, that He must rise from the dead.
New Century Version
(They did not yet understand from the Scriptures that Jesus must rise from the dead.)
Amplified Bible
For as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that He must rise from the dead.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead.
Legacy Standard Bible
For as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead.
Berean Standard Bible
For they still did not understand from the Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.
Contemporary English Version
At that time Peter and the other disciple did not know that the Scriptures said Jesus would rise to life.
Complete Jewish Bible
(They had not yet come to understand that the Tanakh teaches that the Messiah has to rise from the dead.)
Darby Translation
for they had not yet known the scripture, that he must rise from among [the] dead.
Easy-to-Read Version
(These followers did not yet understand from the Scriptures that Jesus must rise from death.)
Geneva Bible (1587)
For as yet they knewe not the Scripture, That he must rise againe from the dead.
George Lamsa Translation
For they did yet not understand from the scripture, that he had to rise from the dead.
Good News Translation
(They still did not understand the scripture which said that he must rise from death.)
Lexham English Bible
(For they did not yet know the scripture that it was necessary for him to rise from the dead.)
Literal Translation
For they did not yet know the Scripture, that it was necessary for Him to rise from the dead.
American Standard Version
For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
Bible in Basic English
For at that time they had no knowledge that the Writings said that he would have to come again from the dead.
Hebrew Names Version
For as yet they didn't know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
International Standard Version
For they did not yet understand the Scripture that saidthat said">[fn] that he had to rise from the dead.Psalm 16:10; Acts 2:25-31; 13:34-35;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
For not yet knew they the scriptures, that he was to rise from the dead.
Murdock Translation
For they had not yet learned from the scriptures, that he was to arise from the dead.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For as yet they knew not ye scripture, that he should rise agayne from death.
English Revised Version
For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
World English Bible
For as yet they didn't know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
Weymouth's New Testament
For until now they had not understood the inspired teaching, that He must rise again from among the dead.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For thei knewen not yit the scripture, that it behofte him to rise ayen fro deth.
Update Bible Version
For as yet they didn't know the scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
Webster's Bible Translation
For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
New English Translation
(For they did not yet understand the scripture that Jesus must rise from the dead.)
New King James Version
For as yet they did not know the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead.
New Living Translation
for until then they still hadn't understood the Scriptures that said Jesus must rise from the dead.
New Life Bible
They still did not understand what the Holy Writings meant when they said that He must rise again from the dead.
New Revised Standard
for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, not yet, knew they the Scripture, that he must needs, from among the dead, arise.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
Revised Standard Version
for as yet they did not know the scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For as yet they knew not the scriptures that he shuld ryse agayne from deeth.
Young's Literal Translation
for not yet did they know the Writing, that it behoveth him out of the dead to rise again.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for as yet they knewe not ye scriptures, yt it behoued hi to ryse agayne fro ye deed.
Mace New Testament (1729)
for as yet they did not understand from the scripture, that he was to rise again from the dead.

Contextual Overview

1Early Sunday morning before sunrise, Mary Magdalene went to Jesus's grave and saw that the big stone had been rolled away. 2She came running back to Pete and the cowboy who Jesus loved, and said, "Jesus has been taken. We don't know where he is." 3So Pete and the other cowboy headed out toward the grave at a high lope. 4Pete was still on his way when the other cowboy stuck his head in the tomb. 5Inside he could see the grave linens, but he didn't go in. 6Pete got there at this point and barreled right by him and went in. He saw the grave linens lying there, 7as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus's head. The cloth was laying there right where Jesus's head should have been. 8Finally, the other cowboy joined Pete inside. He saw what had happened and believed. 9Until now, they hadn't understood that Jesus would come riding back from the grave. 10Then they went back to the house.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they: Matthew 16:21, Matthew 16:22, Mark 8:31-33, Mark 9:9, Mark 9:10, Mark 9:31, Mark 9:32, Luke 9:45, Luke 18:33, Luke 18:34, Luke 24:26, Luke 24:44-46

that: Psalms 16:10, Psalms 22:15, Psalms 22:22-31, Isaiah 25:8, Isaiah 26:19, Isaiah 53:10-12, Hosea 13:14, Acts 2:25-32, Acts 13:29-37, 1 Corinthians 15:4

Reciprocal: Matthew 22:29 - not Mark 12:24 - Do John 2:22 - and they John 20:2 - They have taken

Cross-References

Romans 2:11
God don't play favorites.
Titus 1:11
These people need to have their mouths shut because they are driving people away from God with their foolish talk. Pickle clipping and selling salvation is big money and that is their god.
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage should be held in the highest regard. The marital bed must be kept pure. It is just the husband and wife and no one else. God will judge those who are immoral and those who cheat on a marriage.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For as yet they knew not the Scripture,.... Meaning not some particular passage of Scripture, but the writings of the Old Testament in general, and the various places in it, which spoke of the resurrection of Christ, either in a way of type, or prophecy; such as Genesis 22:3 and though our Lord had often referred to some of them, at least as in Matthew 12:40 yet such was the dulness of the disciples, or such their prejudices in favour of the Messiah being to continue, and set up a temporal kingdom, that even John, who leaned on his breast, and Peter, who was so inquisitive and desirous of knowing our Lord's meaning in everything, did not understand the sense of his words, nor of those places of Scripture he had reference to:

that he must rise again from the dead: so it was determined, thus it was predicted, and the justification and salvation of God's elect required it; and yet they knew not the thing, nor the necessity and importance of it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For an account of the resurrection of Christ, see the notes at Matthew 28:0.

John 20:9

The scripture - See Luke 24:26, Luke 24:46. The sense or meaning of the various predictions that foretold his death, as, for example, Psalms 2:7, compare Acts 13:33; Psalms 16:9-10, compare Acts 2:25-32; Psalms 110:1, compare Acts 2:34-35.

For an account of the resurrection of Christ, see the notes at Matthew 28:0.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 20:9. They knew not the scripture — Viz. Psalms 16:9-10: Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell - כי לא תעזב נפשי לשאול ki lo taazob naphshi l'sheol - For thou wilt not abandon my life to the grave, nor suffer thy Holy One to see corruption. It was certainly a reproach to the disciples that they had not understood this prophecy, when our Lord had given them often the most direct information concerning it. Christ had referred to the history of Jonah, Matthew 12:40, which was at once the type and the proof of his own resurrection. However, this ingenuous confession of John, in a matter so dishonourable to himself, is a full proof of his sincerity, and of the truth of his narration.


 
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