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“Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men.”
Luke 9:44 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.
  • BSB “Let these words sink into your ears: The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.”
  • NKJV “Let these words sink down into your ears, for the Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men.”
  • NASB “As for you, let these words sink into your ears: for the Son of Man is going to be handed over to men.”
  • NLT “Listen to me and remember what I say. The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of his enemies.”

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Quick answer

Jesus tells the disciples to let it sink in that the Son of Man will be betrayed into human hands. He presses the reality of His coming suffering upon them.

Overview

Amid the crowd's excitement, Jesus solemnly repeats the prediction of His betrayal. The call to let these words sink into their ears stresses how vital and easily missed this truth was. It anchors the disciples' attention on the cross that awaits, the very purpose of His coming.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 25

  • Luke 9:22saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.”
  • Acts 2:23him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;
  • Mark 9:31For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, “The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise again.”
  • Luke 2:19But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.
  • Heb 2:1Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
  • Matt 16:21From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.
  • Luke 18:31He took the twelve aside, and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.
  • John 16:4But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
  • Matt 21:38–39But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and seize his inheritance.’
  • Isa 32:9–10Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless daughters, give ear to my speech!
  • 1 Th 3:3–4that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.
  • John 2:19–22Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
  • 2 Sam 24:14David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let us fall now into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into man’s hand.”
  • Matt 26:2“You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”
  • Luke 24:6–7He isn’t here, but is risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee,
  • Heb 12:2–5looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
  • Luke 1:66All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, “What then will this child be?” The hand of the Lord was with him.
  • Matt 20:18–19“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death,
  • Luke 24:44He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”
  • Acts 4:27–28“For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together
  • Mark 8:31He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
  • Matt 17:22–23While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men,
  • John 19:11Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”
  • Acts 3:13–15The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.
  • Luke 2:51And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

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Christ at the center

Luke shows Jesus the Savior for all — outsiders, the poor, the nations — the one who, on the Emmaus road, opened all the Scriptures to show they were about himself.

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