Jesus rose from the dead on the third day! The Bible teaches it, we confess it in the Creeds,  and it’s the heart and core of the Christian faith. Jesus rose from the dead on the third day Those words “on the third day” are not just a phrase that is tacked on to the end of a sentence, but they are an important theological distinction. The “third day” teaches us that there was a first day and and a second day.