- Bible
- Matthew
- Chapter 17
- Verse 23
And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again. And they were exceeding sorry.
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Gill's Exposition
And they shall kill him,.... Put him to death, with the death of the cross; for the angels in rehearsing these words, affirm, that Christ told his disciples at this time, and in this place, whilst…
See also Mar 9:30-33; Luk 9:43-45. And while they abode in Galilee - Galilee, the northern part of Palestine. See the notes at Mat 2:22. The Son of man shall be betrayed ... - To betray means to…
Christ here foretels his own sufferings; he began to do it before (Mat 16:21); and, finding that it was to his disciples a hard saying, he saw it necessary to repeat it. There are some things which…
The Second Announcement of the Passion
Mar 9:31; Luk 9:44
Both St Mark and St Luke add that the disciples "understood not this saying." It was difficult for them to abandon cherished hopes of an…
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