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Then Jesus said to them, "All of you will be offended by me tonight, for it is written, `I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered abroad.`
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God's Plan in Human Failure
Jesus predicts the disciples' desertion by quoting the Old Testament, showing that this tragic failure was not an accident but part of God's sovereign plan. Commentators explain that the 'smiting' of the Shepherd was God's own action to bring about salvation. This reveals that God's ultimate purposes can be fulfilled even through human weakness and sin.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Then Jesus says to them. The occasion of His saying this was Peter's bold affirmation that he was ready to die with Him ([Referen…
19th Century
Anglican
All you will be offended because of me — We may think of these words as being spoken at some early stage of that evening …
Baptist
And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. An…
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“This very night” makes clear how soon the disciples’ defection and Peter’s denial will happen. The intimacy of the Last Supper is shortly to be re…
16th Century
Protestant
You will all be offended at me. What Matthew and Mark extend to all the disciples alike is related by Luke as having been spoken to Peter …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then says Jesus unto them Either before they went out of the house, where they had been eating the passover, and the…
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Improper self-confidence, like that of Peter, is the first step to a fall. There is a proneness in all of us to be overconfident. But those fall so…
13th Century
Catholic
After the institution of the new Sacrament has been related, Christ here foretells the future stumbling of the disciples. The Evangelist, first, es…
