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31 Then Jesus took the Twelve off to the side and said, "Listen carefully. We're on our way up to Jerusalem. Everything written in the Prophets about the Son of Man will take place.
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Jesus took the Twelve aside and told them, “We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.
32 He will be handed over to the Romans, jeered at, made sport of, and spit on. Then, after giving him the third degree, they will kill him.
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He will be delivered over to the Gentiles. They will mock him, insult him and spit on him;
33 In three days he will rise, alive."
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they will flog him and kill him. On the third day he will rise again.”
34 But they didn't get it, could make neither heads nor tails of what he was talking about.
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The disciples did not understand any of this. Its meaning was hidden from them, and they did not know what he was talking about.
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