Commentary on Matthew, Mark, Luke - Volume 2.pdf

<strong>Commentary</strong> on Matthew, Mark, Luke - Volume 2
glory, because God is not limited to any person, but calls freely whomsoever He pleases, and
bestows on those who are called whatever rewards He thinks fit.
MATTHEW 20:17-19; MARK 10:32-34;
LUKE 18:31-34
Matthew 20:17-19
Mark 10:32-34
Luke 18:31-34
17. And Jesus, going up to 32. And they were in the 31. And Jesus took the
Jerusalem, took the twelve way going up to Jerusalem; and twelve, and said to them, Lo, we
disciples apart in the way, and Jesus went before them: and go up to Jerusalem, and all
said to them, 18. Lo, we go up they were amazed; and, while things which have been written
to Jerusalem; and the Son of they followed him, where afraid. by the prophets concerning the
man will be delivered to the And having again taken aside Son of man will be
chief priests and scribes; and the twelve, he began to tell them accomplished. 32. For he will be
they will condemn him to death. what things would happen to delivered to the Gentiles, and
19. And they will deliver him to him: 33. Lo, we go up to mocked, and insulted, and spat
the Gentiles to mock, and to Jerusalem; and the Son of man on; 33. And after having
scourge, and to crucify him; will be delivered to the chief scourged, they will kill him; and
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and on the third day he will rise priests and scribes; and they will on the third day he will rise
again.
condemn him to death, and will again. 34. And they understood
deliver him to the Gentiles: none of these things; and this
34. And will mock him, and saying was hidden from them,
and they understood not the
things which were spoken. 648
scourge him, and spit upon him,
and kill him; and on the third
day he will rise again.
Though the apostles had been previously informed what kind of death awaited our Lord, yet
as they had not sufficiently profited by it, he now repeats anew what he had frequently said. He
sees that the day of his death is at hand; nay more, he is already in a state of readiness to offer
himself to be sacrificed; and, on the other hand, he sees the disciples not only afraid, but
overwhelmed by blind alarm. He therefore exhorts them to steadiness, that they may not immediately
yield to temptation. Now there are two methods by which he confirms them; for, by foretelling
what would happen, he not only fortifies them, that they may not give way, when a calamity, which
has arisen suddenly and contrary to expectation, takes them by surprise, but meets the offense of
the cross by a proof of his Divinity, that they may not lose courage at beholding his short abasement,
647 “Pour estre mocque, et flagelle, et crucifie;” — “to be mocked, and scourged, and crucified.”
648 “Et ne pouvoyent entendre ce qu’il leur disoit;” — “and they could not understand what he said to them.”
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John Calvin