Announcement of His Approaching Death and Rebuke of Peter (Mt 16:21-28).
The occasion here is evidently the same.
21. From that time forth began Jesus to show unto his disciples--that
is, with an explicitness and frequency He had never observed before.
how that he must go unto Jerusalem and suffer many things--"and be
rejected,"
(Mr 8:31;
Lu 9:22).
of the elders and chief priests and scribes--not as before, merely by
not receiving Him, but by formal deeds.
and be killed, and be raised again the third day--Mark
(Mr 8:32)
adds, that "He spake that saying openly"--"explicitly," or "without
disguise."
JFB.
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