MARK 10:34 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.”
Who will mock him and spit on him, flog him and kill him. Three days later he will rise — the Gentile treatment of Jesus is specified: mocking, spitting, flogging, killing. Each element will be confirmed in the passion narrative (Mark 14:65, 15:15–20). Three days later he will rise: the resurrection is stated as confidently as the passion — the same foreknowledge, the same voluntary acceptance. The passion prediction is the most complete summary of the Gospel's climax available before the events occur.
Church Fathers on Mark 10:34
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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