46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:



Ver. 46. Thus it is written, &c.] All things done and suffered by our Saviour were punctually and exactly foretold and foreshown by Moses and the prophets; and especially by Isaiah, who writes more like an evangelist than a prophet; and is therefore called the Evangelical Prophet. (Jerome.)