And taking the twelve, he said to them, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished.
Here is, I. The notice Christ gave to his disciples of his sufferings and death approaching, and of the glorious issue of them, which he himself had a perfect sight and foreknowledge of, and thought it necessary to give them warning of, that it might be the less surprise and terror to them. Two things here are which we had not in the other evangelists: - 1.
Commenting on Luke 18:31-34
For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles,.... As he was by the chief priests, Scribes, and elders, to Pilate, the Roman governor, and by him to the soldiers: and shall be mocked; as he was by the latter, when they crowned him with thorns, arrayed him in a purple robe, and put a reed into his hand, and bowed the knee to him, saying...
Verses 31-33. . By the prophets. Those who foretold the coming of the Messiah, and whose predictions are recorded in the Old Testament. Son of man. The Messiah. They predicted that certain things would take place respecting the Messiah that was to come. , also ; . These things, Jesus said, would be accomplished in him, he being the Son of man, or the Messiah.