Luke 18:31-33

³¹ Then He took the twelve aside and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be accomplished. ³² For He will be delivered to the Gentiles and will be mocked and insulted and spit upon. ³³ They will scourge Him and kill Him. And the third day He will rise again.” ³⁴ But they understood none of these things; this saying was hidden from them, and they did not know the things which were spoken.

Commentary

Vs. 31 Then He took the twelve aside and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be accomplished.

Having told the disciples that the sacrifices that they make for the Kingdom of God shall all be abundantly rewarded, Jesus now takes the twelve aside to reveal to them that His time has now come, that they are now going up to Jerusalem, so that “…all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be accomplished.”

Vs. 32-33 ³² For He will be delivered to the Gentiles and will be mocked and insulted and spit upon. ³³ They will scourge Him and kill Him. And the third day He will rise again.”

There then will be no acceptance of the Lord Jesus Christ in Jerusalem by the priests, rulers, and elders there. For they will all conspire together to deliver Him to the Gentiles so that they will kill Him! Nonetheless though the Lord Jesus Christ will be horribly treated by all those who have rejected Him, for they will cruelly and horribly abuse and scourge Him, before they kill Him, yet He will on the third day rise again!

Vs. 34 “But they understood none of these things; this saying was hidden from them, and they did not know the things which were spoken.”

The disciples though having heard Jesus foretell these things do not yet understand the things which He just revealed to them, for as the Scripture says, it was hidden from them. Now if they had understood, would they have let the Lord go to Jerusalem? And yet there were still so many aspects to the Lord Jesus Christs’ rejection, suffering, and death that needed to be fulfilled as the Scriptures foretold, and so nothing, or no one would be permitted to be a barrier to His going to Jerusalem until they were all fulfilled.

Scripture Quotations

New King James Version (1982): Thomas Nelson