if you deny His deity
He cannot save you
and speaking of the death and resurrection
He said He would raise Himself
John 2:19...22
19 Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
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21 But He was speaking of the temple of His body.
Quoting: Red John Notice how it was the dawning of the fourth day when they were eating dinner in Emmaus
that he began to raise up the temple "of his body" .
The "stones of temple", [even Peter], would be scattered [and discouraged] but it would be "after the third day "Jesus said, he would "raise them up".
EMMAUS
The village toward which Cleopas and a fellow disciple were journeying when they were joined by the materialized Jesus Christ on the day of his resurrection. It was not, however, until after they reached Emmaus and Jesus “was reclining with them at the meal” that they recognized him. Following Jesus’ subsequent disappearance the two disciples returned to Jerusalem that same evening. (Lu 24:13-33) Luke says that the village was ‘sixty stadia’ (7.5 Roman miles [11 km; 7 mi]) from Jerusalem.
He himself , "the head" was raised "on the third day", as prophesied ,and those 2 on road to Emmaus said it was "now the third day", on Sunday or " the first day of the week".
" My heart was burning within me" when I saw this in a marginal note about this passage in New World Translation, because I'd encountered some ppl sneering about this supposed 'Bible inconsistency', of whether resurrection was "on" or "after" the third day ?
I was telling an unbeliever I know -I hope, correctly- that "the city having real foundations, built by God" got more foundation stones in 1914, when "The dead in Christ rose first", satan and demons having been expelled. I was telling him things that happened starting then, besides war and Spanish flu, and he actually came up with more things that started about then, that I hadn't known about-
