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Matthew 17:23
They will kill Him, and on the third day He will be raised to life.” And the disciples were deeply grieved.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jesus addresses His disciples in Galilee immediately after predicting His delivery into human hands. He states that they will kill Him and that He will be raised on the third day, which leaves the disciples deeply grieved.
The words — ἀποκτενοῦσιν (apoktenousin) literally means "they will kill," and ἐγερθήσεται (egerthēsetai) translates as "He will be raised up." Both verbs employ the future tense to mark the events as certain rather than conditional.
The thread — The prediction of suffering and death echoes Jesus' earlier teaching in Matthew 16:21 and aligns with the suffering servant prophecy in Isaiah 53:10. The motif of divine opposition to a shepherd also appears in Zechariah 13:7.
Why it lands — The text states that the disciples were deeply grieved before any inference about their spiritual state is drawn. It requires the reader to acknowledge that resurrection follows delivered suffering without minimizing the cost of that delivery.
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The Greek words
King James Version
And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again. And they were exceeding sorry.
Cross-references
- Isaiah 53:10 Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
- Matthew 16:21 From that time on Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and that He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.
- Zechariah 13:7 Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who is My Companion, declares the LORD of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn My hand against the little ones.
- Mark 8:31 Then He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and that He must be killed and after three days rise again.
- Psalms 22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.
- Psalms 22:22 I will proclaim Your name to my brothers; I will praise You in the assembly.
- Isaiah 53:7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
- John 2:19 Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”
- John 16:6 Instead, your hearts are filled with sorrow because I have told you these things.
- John 16:20 Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.