Listen carefully to what I am about to tell you: the Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men — listen carefully (thesthe eis ta ōta hymōn, put into your ears): the urgency of the instruction. The second passion prediction is the briefest — no specification of the agents of rejection, just the Son of Man delivered into the hands of men. The contrast between the crowd's marvel at the divine power and the coming betrayal is the chapter's irony.

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