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From that time, Jesus began to show to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.
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A Strategic Revelation
Commentators highlight this verse as a major turning point. Jesus intentionally waited until the disciples confessed Him as the Messiah before revealing the difficult truth of His suffering and death. Scholars note this was a wise and gradual process to correct their expectations of a political king and prepare them for the true nature of His redemptive mission.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
From that time forth. This was the first indication that he gave that he was to die in this cruel manner. He had taken great pains to conv…
From that time began (απο τοτε ηρξατο). It was a suitable time for the disclosure of the greatest secret of his death. It is now j…
19th Century
Anglican
From that time forth began Jesus—The emphasis placed on this prediction shows that it struck the disciples as something entirely n…
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Baptist
The Church, or assembly, being now actually arranged and treated as a fact, our Lord began to prepare His disciples for the time when, as an associ…
This is not the first time Jesus alludes to his death (10:38; 12:40; cf. Jn 2:19; 3:14), but now he begins to discuss it openly with his disciples.…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
From that time forth began Jesus to show unto his disciples From the time that Peter …
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Christ reveals his mind to his people gradually. From that time, when the apostles had made the full confession of Christ, that he was the Son of G…
13th Century
Catholic
Above, Peter’s confession of Christ’s divinity was related; here, Christ commands silence for a time, specifically, that they do not say that He is…
