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MATTHEW 17:23 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 17:22Matt 17:24
“And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again. And they were exceeding sorry.”
And they will kill him, and he will be raised on the third day. And they were greatly distressed. The death and resurrection paired in the second passion prediction: kill and raised on the third day. The disciples' great distress communicates that the first passion prediction (Matthew 16:21) has not fully prepared them for the repeated announcement. The resurrection announcement does not comfort the distress: the disciples cannot yet receive the resurrection hope as a genuine comfort for the death announcement.

Church Fathers on Matthew 17:23

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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