“Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.”
And he said, the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life — the first passion prediction immediately follows the confession. The must (dei, divine necessity) governs the entire sequence: suffer, be rejected, be killed, be raised. The three agents of rejection (elders, chief priests, teachers of law) name the Sanhedrin — the official religious establishment.
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