He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again — the first passion prediction immediately follows Peter's correct confession. The must (dei) is the necessity of divine plan: the suffering is not accidental or preventable but necessary. The three agents of rejection (elders, chief priests, teachers of the law) are the Sanhedrin — the full religious establishment. The sequence (suffering, rejection, killing, resurrection) is the complete passion narrative in summary form.

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