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Mar 10:32-45. Third explicit and still fuller announcement of his approaching sufferings, death, and resurrection - The ambitious request of James and John, and the reply. ( = Mat 20:17-28; Luk 18:31-34).
Third Announcement of His approaching sufferings, death, and resurrection (Mar 10:32-34).
And they were in the way - on the road.
going up to Jerusalem - in Perea, and probably somewhere between Ephraim and Jericho, on the farther side of the Jordan, and to the northeast of Jerusalem.
and Jesus went before them - as Grotius says, in the style of an intrepid Leader.
and they were amazed - or “struck with astonishment” at His courage in advancing to certain death.
and as they followed, they were afraid - for their own safety. These artless, lifelike touches - not only from an eye-witness, but one whom the noble carriage of the Master struck with wonder and awe - are peculiar to Mark, and give the second Gospel a charm all its own; making us feel as if we ourselves were in the midst of the scenes it describes. Well might the poet exclaim:
“The Savior, what a noble flame
Was kindled in His breast,
When, hasting to Jerusalem,
He march’d before the rest!”
- Cowper
And he took again the twelve - referring to His previous announcements on this sad subject.
and began to tell them what things should happen unto him - “were going to befall Him.” The word expresses something already begun but not brought to a head, rather than something wholly future.