Today is Monday, March 6th, 2023; Karen's Korner #4861

Jesus Predicts His Death the Third Time

"Now they were on the way to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking along ahead, and as the disciples were following they were filled with terror and dread.

"Taking them aside, Jesus once more began describing all that was going to happen to him when they arrived at Jerusalem.

"'When we get there,' he told hem, 'I, the Messiah, will be arrested and taken before the chief priests and the Jewish leaders, who will sentence me to die and hand me over to the Romans to be killed. They will mock me and spit on me and flog me with their whips and kill me; but after three days I will come back to life again.'"

~ Mark 10:32 - 34 LAB
(can also be found in Matthew 20:17 - 19;
Luke 18:31 - 34)

*

Bible Commentary:   "Jesus' death and resurrection should have come as no surprise to the disciples. Here he clearly explained to them what would happen to him. Unfortunately, they didn't really hear what he was saying. Jesus said he was the Messiah, but they though the Messiah would be a conquering king. He spoke to them of resurrection, they wondered how a person could come back to life after being dead. Because Jesus often spoke in parables, the disciples may have thought his words on death and resurrection were another parable they didn't understand. The Gospels include Jesus' predictions of his death and resurrection to show that they were God's plan from the beginning, not an accident."

***

---

Back