Matthew 17:22 And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men: And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again. And they were exceeding sorry. “And while they abode in Galilee: for they passed through it, when they departed from hence; (see Mark 9:30) and as they were going to Capernaum, and onward, to the coasts of Judea, in order to be at Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover. Where, and when, Christ was to suffer, and observing that the time of his death drew nigh, he inculcates it again to his disciples a third time, that they might be prepared for it, and not be discouraged and terrified by it; “Jesus said unto them, the son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men”: some copies read, sinful men; and so the angels report the words, in Luke 24:7 by whom may be meant the Gentiles, who, by the Jews, were reckoned very wicked men, and called sinners of the Gentiles. Now Christ intimates, that the son of man, meaning himself, should be betrayed by the Jews, into the hands of the Gentiles; which, with the Jews, nothing was reckoned a fouler action, or a viler crime. Jesus did not want His death on the cross to come as such a shock to the disciples. He was trying to explain to them that this was the salvation plan that had been worked out from the beginning of the earth. He was trying to make them understand that this was victory, not defeat, because He would rise again. They really could not receive the fact that He had to die this cruel death. They were saddened knowing of His eminent death to the world.
Posted on: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 19:37:57 +0000
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