For he will be delivered over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and shamefully treated and spit upon.
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
And they shall scourge him,.... As he was by Pilate's order, before he was crucified: and put him to death; a shameful, and a painful one, the death of the cross: and the third day he shall rise again; as he accordingly did.
FULLER ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS APPROACHING DEATH AND RESURRECTION. (Luk 18:31-34) all written by the prophets concerning the Son of man . . . be accomplished--showing how Christ Himself read, and would have us to read, the Old Testament, in which some otherwise evangelical interpreters find no prophecies, or virtually none, of the sufferings of the Son of man.
Commenting on Luke 18:31-34