Matthew 17:23

and they will put him to death, but on the third day he will rise.” The disciples were greatly distressed.

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In The King James Version

And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again. And they were exceeding sorry.

In Context

22While Jesus and his disciples were together in Galilee, he said to them, “The Son of Man is destined to be betrayed into human hands,

24After they had reached Capernaum, the collectors of the Temple tax came up to Peter, and said, “Does not your Master pay the Temple tax?”

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Cross References

Psalms 22:15My palate is dry as a sherd, my tongue sticks to my jaws; in the dust of death you lay me.

Matthew 16:21At that time Jesus Christ began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem, and undergo much suffering at the hands of the elders, and chief priests, and teachers of the Law, and be put to death, and rise on the third day.

John 2:19“Destroy this temple,” was his answer, “and I will raise it in three days.”

John 16:20In truth I tell you that you will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice; you will suffer pain, but your pain will turn to joy.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 17:23-24

Christ's Sufferings Foretold. 22 And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men: 23 And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again. And they were exceeding sorry. Christ here foretels his own sufferings; he began to do it before ( ch. xvi. 21 ); and, finding that it was to his disciples a hard saying, he saw it necessary to repeat it. There are some things which God speaketh once, yea twice, and yet man perceiveth it not. Observe… Read the whole commentary →

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