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22, 23. THE SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PASSION
Mar 9:31; Luk 9:44
Both St Mark and St Luke add that the disciples ‘understood not this saying.’ It was difficult for them to abandon cherished hopes of an earthly kingdom, and ‘might not Jesus be speaking in parables of a figurative death and resurrection?’ See note, ch. Mat 16:21.
Observe here the various phases in the prediction of the Passion. The first (ch. Mat 16:21) foretells the rejection of Jesus as the Messiah by the Jews, and his death in the indefinite passive, ἀποκτανθῆναι.
The second speaks of the betrayal into the hands of men, εἰς χεῖρας ἀνθρώπων (Matt., Mark, Luke); and ‘they shall put him to death.’
The third (ch. Mat 20:17-19) particularises the share taken by Jew and Gentile. The Sanhedrin shall condemn and deliver to the Gentiles, εἰς τὸ ἐμπαῖξαι καὶ μαστιγῶσαι καὶ σταυρῶσαι.