“For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day.”
Because he was teaching his disciples, saying: the Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men. They will kill him, and after three days he will rise — the second passion prediction is shorter and in some ways more stark than the first. The Son of Man is going to be delivered — the passive communicates divine agency as well as human betrayal: delivered by Judas, but ultimately delivered in the plan of God. Into the hands of men: the one who has authority over all things will be handed over to the power of human beings. The paradox of the passion is total: the Lord of creation delivered to creatures.
Church Fathers on Mark 9:31
It is after miracles that the Lord inserts a discourse concerning His Passion, lest it should be thought that He suffered because He could not help it.
He always mingles together sorrowful and joyful things, that sorrow should not by its suddenness frighten the Apostles, but be borne by them with prepared minds.
Capernaum means the city of consolation, and agrees with the former sentence, which He had spoken: 'And after that He is killed, He shall arise the third day.'
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