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MATTHEW 17:22 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 17:21Matt 17:23
“And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men:”
As they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them: the Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men. The second passion prediction in Matthew's Gospel: the Son of Man will be delivered (paradidomi — the word used for Judas's betrayal) into the hands of men. The passive will be delivered communicates the divine necessity of the passion alongside the human agency of the betrayal.

Church Fathers on Matthew 17:22

The Lord often foretold to His disciples the mysteries of His passion, in order that when they come to pass, they might be the lighter to them from having been known beforehand.

Remigius · 9th century

This seems to be so like a warning He had given above, that a man might easily say that the Lord now repeated what He had said before; yet is it not so; He had not before said that He must be betrayed, but we hear now not only that He must be betrayed, but that He must be 'betrayed into the hands of men.' The Son of Man indeed was 'delivered up' by God the Father according to the Apostle, [Rom 8:32] but different powers gave him up into the hands of men.

Origen · 3rd century

Thus does He ever mix the joyful and the grievous; if it grieves them that He is to be put to death, they ought to be gladdened when they hear, 'And shall rise again, the third day.'

Jerome · 4th century
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