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He took the twelve aside and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.
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NEW TESTAMENT
All chapters Luke 18:31–34
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32
For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.
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33
They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again.”
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34
They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn’t understand the things that were said.
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Verse 34. They understood well enough the sense of the words he spoke to them. But they could not understand how they could be reconciled with the idea they had previously conceived of the Messias. They were scandalized in the first place, to think that God should suffer any thing inflicted by man; they were scandalized in the second place, to hear that sufferings and death could lead to victory and empire; and lastly, they were scandalized, (their own feelings taking the alarm) lest they should be forced to imitate their Master in this part which he had chosen for himself. A.
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