Matthew 20:17 Cross References

Matthew 20:17

17: As Jesus was on the way to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside privately and told them what was going to happen to him.

They were now on the way to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them. The disciples were filled with dread and the people following behind were overwhelmed with fear. Taking the twelve disciples aside, Jesus once more began to describe everything that was about to happen to him in Jerusalem.
"When we get to Jerusalem," he told them, "the Son of Man will be betrayed to the leading priests and the teachers of religious law. They will sentence him to die and hand him over to the Romans.
They will mock him, spit on him, beat him with their whips, and kill him, but after three days he will rise again."

Gathering the twelve disciples around him, Jesus told them, "As you know, we are going to Jerusalem. And when we get there, all the predictions of the ancient prophets concerning the Son of Man will come true.
He will be handed over to the Romans to be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit upon.
They will whip him and kill him, but on the third day he will rise again."
But they didn't understand a thing he said. Its significance was hidden from them, and they failed to grasp what he was talking about.

Then he explained to them, "You have been permitted to understand the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven, but others have not.

I no longer call you servants, because a master doesn't confide in his servants. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.

not to the general public, but to us whom God had chosen beforehand to be his witnesses. We were those who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

The next day, the news that Jesus was on the way to Jerusalem swept through the city. A huge crowd of Passover visitors

When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?"

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