MARK 10:33 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles:”
We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles — the third passion prediction adds specific details absent from the first two: the Jerusalem destination, the specific agents (chief priests, teachers of law), the Jewish condemnation, the handover to the Gentiles. The specificity of the prediction, confirmed by the passion narrative of chapters 14–15, communicates divine foreknowledge and voluntary acceptance.
Church Fathers on Mark 10:33
The disciples remembered the discourse in which the Lord had foretold that He was about to suffer many things from the chief priests and scribes, and therefore in going up to Jerusalem, they were amazed. And this is what is meant, when it is said, 'And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus went before them.'
To shew that He runs to meet His Passion, and that He does not refuse death, for the sake of our salvation; and they were amazed, and as they followed, they were afraid.
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