For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on:
On His last journey up to Jerusalem He took the twelve apart and told them plainly and truly what would be done to Him. His steps were already bending toward Calvary and the hour of temptation was upon Him while His enemies were plotting for His life. They were determined to stop His lips from uttering reproofs and warnings condemning their sins and hypocrisy, and to pursue Him until His life paid the penalty for His plain teachings and sharp reproofs.
He foretold that He, the Son of Man, would be delivered and handed over to the Gentiles and into hostile hands. He would be mocked, spitefully entreated and abused and mistreated, spit upon, and treated with contempt and cruelty. With that He foretold the further course in Jerusalem: scourging and being put to death by crucifixion, followed by rising on the third day. The suffering would come first, and the resurrection afterward.
These sufferings were the things written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man and the Messiah, to be accomplished and fulfilled in full in Him in Jerusalem. Seen from this side of the cross they are seen fulfilled to the letter, including at Calvary where He was handed over to the Gentiles and treated with contempt. The disciples understood none of what He said because they expected Him to set up a temporal kingdom and to be a conquering temporal prince on David's throne in Jerusalem bringing all nations into subjection. With the kingdom to be established soon and with promises of honor for themselves in it, His words about suffering and death seemed unclear to them.
Unwilling to believe disagreeable truth and to give up the thought of a conqueror, they were unwilling to harbor the idea of rejection, betrayal, treatment as a slave, and such contempt. Not believing His words, they did not comprehend the words of the prophets and thought them out of harmony with His words, unable to fit betrayal and suffering with promises of the Messiah's glory. Their unbelief left them unprepared for the trying scenes they had to pass through. Mary remembered His brief foretelling even while she and the disciples still hoped He would reveal His power before His enemies as the Son of God.
The disciples should have remembered the promised resurrection as surely as the sufferings already fulfilled, having reason from the prediction to expect these events and to believe He would rise again. His suffering and death show His kingdom is spiritual, not temporal. His plain foretelling proves His love, sympathy, and affection without partiality, since when human affection rose to turn aside God's purpose He rebuked it as offensive and of men and not of God rather than welcoming it as solace.
In its context in verses 28-33 the prediction held out hope for His hearers and disciples, though almost all of them forgot it. It is cited as part of the oppressed people of God's united day-and-night cry for deliverance near the close of the church's history in this mortal state.
On His last journey up to Jerusalem He took the twelve apart and told them plainly and truly what would be done to Him. His steps were already bending toward Calvary and the hour of temptation was upon Him while His enemies were plotting for His life. They were determined to stop His lips from uttering reproofs and warnings condemning their sins and hypocrisy, and to pursue Him until His life paid the penalty for His plain teachings and sharp reproofs.
He foretold that He, the Son of Man, would be delivered and handed over to the Gentiles and into hostile hands. He would be mocked, spitefully entreated and abused and mistreated, spit upon, and treated with contempt and cruelty. With that He foretold the further course in Jerusalem: scourging and being put to death by crucifixion, followed by rising on the third day. The suffering would come first, and the resurrection afterward.
These sufferings were the things written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man and the Messiah, to be accomplished and fulfilled in full in Him in Jerusalem. Seen from this side of the cross they are seen fulfilled to the letter, including at Calvary where He was handed over to the Gentiles and treated with contempt. The disciples understood none of what He said because they expected Him to set up a temporal kingdom and to be a conquering temporal prince on David's throne in Jerusalem bringing all nations into subjection. With the kingdom to be established soon and with promises of honor for themselves in it, His words about suffering and death seemed unclear to them.
Unwilling to believe disagreeable truth and to give up the thought of a conqueror, they were unwilling to harbor the idea of rejection, betrayal, treatment as a slave, and such contempt. Not believing His words, they did not comprehend the words of the prophets and thought them out of harmony with His words, unable to fit betrayal and suffering with promises of the Messiah's glory. Their unbelief left them unprepared for the trying scenes they had to pass through. Mary remembered His brief foretelling even while she and the disciples still hoped He would reveal His power before His enemies as the Son of God.
The disciples should have remembered the promised resurrection as surely as the sufferings already fulfilled, having reason from the prediction to expect these events and to believe He would rise again. His suffering and death show His kingdom is spiritual, not temporal. His plain foretelling proves His love, sympathy, and affection without partiality, since when human affection rose to turn aside God's purpose He rebuked it as offensive and of men and not of God rather than welcoming it as solace.
In its context in verses 28-33 the prediction held out hope for His hearers and disciples, though almost all of them forgot it. It is cited as part of the oppressed people of God's united day-and-night cry for deliverance near the close of the church's history in this mortal state.