And he began to teach them
For as yet he had said nothing to them about his sufferings and
death, at least in express terms; but now they being firmly
established in the faith of him, as the Messiah, he thought it
proper to inform them,
that the son of man must suffer many things;
meaning himself, as that he should be betrayed, apprehended, and
bound, should be smitten, spit upon, buffeted, and scourged; and
which things must be done, and he suffer them, because it was so
determined by God, and foretold in the Scriptures:
and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests and
Scribes;
which composed the grand sanhedrim of the nation, and are the
builders that were prophesied of by whom he should be rejected, (
Psalms
118:22 ) ,
and be killed;
in a violent manner; his life be taken away by force, without
law, or justice:
and after three days rise again:
not after three days were ended, and on the fourth day, but after
the third day was come; that is, "on the third day", as the
Syriac, Arabic, Persic, and Ethiopic versions read; and even the
Pharisees themselves thus understood Christ, ( Matthew
27:63 Matthew
27:64 ) , so the phrase, "after eight days", is used for the
eighth day, being come, or that same day a week later; see (
Luke 9:28 )
compared with ( Matthew 17:1
) ( John
20:26 ) .