Featured Mark chapter 8 says Jesus would rise after three days, but Resurrection is later described as closer to a day and a half

[Multicolored Lemur]

This is quite interesting. The Greek word translated as "after" is the word "Meta". This word is most often translated as "with" in the Bible. So, it could be translated as And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and with three days rise again.

Again, the problem is not with the Bible.

The following is from a New Testament interlinear Bible.. the English follows the Greek word for word including the Greek's word order... Decided to use it to see what magic the English translators might have worked out to make sense of the Greek...

"And He began to teach them that it is necessary for the son of man _ many things to suffer and to be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and to be killed and after three days to rise

Source: https://biblehub.com/interlinear/mark/8-31.htm

Hmm.. doesn't shed much light. It's pretty much identical in meaning to what we find in regular English Bibles.

@Scooter , do you have a source saying "meta" is the ancient Greek word and it means "with" ?

@AgnosticBoy , do you have a way of finding the ancient Greek in which it's printed and we can read it? I mean, not just a photo of ancient papyrus.

 

[Scooter]

@Scooter , do you have a source saying "meta" is the ancient Greek word and it means "with" ?

Absolutely:
Strong’s Definitions
μετά metá, met-ah'; a primary preposition (often used adverbially); properly, denoting accompaniment; "amid" (local or causal); modified variously according to the case (genitive association, or accusative succession) with which it is joined; occupying an intermediate position between G575 or G1537 and G1519 or G4314; less intimate than G1722 and less close than G4862):—after(-ward), × that he again, against, among, × and, + follow, hence, hereafter, in, of, (up-)on, + our, × and setting, since, (un-)to, + together, when, with (+ -out). Often used in composition, in substantially the same relations of participation or proximity, and transfer or sequence.

 

[Scooter]

Peter and John were both arrested within three months of Jesus’ resurrection and commanded to stop preaching the resurrection of Christ. There was plenty of time for the religious leaders to exhume the body.

 

[AgnosticBoy]

@AgnosticBoy , do you have a way of finding the ancient Greek in which it's printed and we can read it? I mean, not just a photo of ancient papyrus.

No, not sure which source my site used for their Greek text. But I did find another online NT Interlinear Bible ...https://nltinterlinear.com/interlinear?query=Mark.8.31

They also have a view where you can see only the Greek text, but it doesn't give a source or papyrus for that Greek text.

 

[AgnosticBoy]

If Jesus did not arise from the dead, then why aren't there records to refute this claim? It would be very easy to present a dead body to silence the resurrection story.

Peter and John were both arrested within three months of Jesus’ resurrection and commanded to stop preaching the resurrection of Christ. There was plenty of time for the religious leaders to exhume the body.

I was going to ask the same thing that Lemur brought up.

Some might say that someone stole his body but then you'd have to question what good reason they would have to do so. But I don't believe the Apostles would do so because they had nothing good to gain from it and they wouldn't suffer and die for a lie. I don't believe that those against Jesus (the Pharisees and others) would need to steal the body as they would not want Jesus's followers to use that in any way to support their cause.

I mean unless the Jewish leadership back then were too dumb to realize what they could do to squash the rising religion that they were so badly against. Besides that, Scooter's question is a very good one..

 

[Multicolored Lemur]

Strong’s Definitions
μετά metá, met-ah'; a primary preposition (often used adverbially); properly, denoting accompaniment; "amid" (local or causal);

Is there an online version of Strong’s?

 

[Multicolored Lemur]

Peter and John were both arrested within three months of Jesus’ resurrection

I've never heard this before. I'm going to need two or three sources on this one!

And if you're talking about the Book of Acts, that's 60 AD at the earliest.

 

[Scooter]

Strong’s Definitions
μετά metá, met-ah'; a primary preposition (often used adverbially); properly, denoting accompaniment; "amid" (local or causal);

Is there an online version of Strong’s?

Yep. Go to Blueletterbible.com

 

[Scooter]

Peter and John were both arrested within three months of Jesus’ resurrection

I've never heard this before. I'm going to need two or three sources on this one!

And if you're talking about the Book of Acts, that's 60 AD at the earliest.

Acts may have been written in 60AD but the events recorded began after Jesus ascended. Acts 4 records the arrest of and threats to Peter and John. I don’t have two or three sources. I only have the one. So that’s what I will ask of you — only one eyewitness to refute the resurrection of Jesus.

 

[Multicolored Lemur]

No, not sure which source my site used for their Greek text. But I did find another online NT Interlinear Bible ...https://nltinterlinear.com/interlinear?query=Mark.8.31

Hi, might you be able to find a link which connects?