Which specific scripture does John 20:9 refer to?

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John 20:9 says:

YLT: for not yet did they know the Writing, that it behoveth him out of the dead to rise again.
NKJV: For as yet they did not know the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead.
NIV: (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.)
NLT: for until then they still hadn’t understood the Scriptures that said Jesus must rise from the dead.

These translations do have slightly different meanings, but that is not what this question is asking about.

Which specific scripture or writing was it that they didn’t know or understand?