Christ’s Passion Foretold
31 Then He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and that He must be killed and after three days rise again.
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He spoke this message quite frankly, and Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him.
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But Jesus, turning and looking at His disciples, rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind Me, Satan! For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”
Take Up Your Cross
34 Then Jesus called the crowd to Him along with His disciples, and He told them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
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For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and for the gospel will save it.
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What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?
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Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
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If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in His Father’s glory with the holy angels.”