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Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.
Luke 9:44 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB “Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up 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 of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.
  • Acts 2:23Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
  • Mark 9:31For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day.
  • Luke 2:19But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.
  • Heb 2:1Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
  • Matt 16:21From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
  • Luke 18:31Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished.
  • John 16:4But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.
  • Matt 21:38–39But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
  • Isa 32:9–10Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
  • 1 Th 3:3–4That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
  • John 2:19–22Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
  • 2 Sam 24:14And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
  • Matt 26:2Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
  • Luke 24:6–7He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,
  • Heb 12:2–5Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
  • Luke 1:66And all they that heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the hand of the Lord was with him.
  • Matt 20:18–19Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death,
  • Luke 24:44And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
  • Acts 4:27–28For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
  • Mark 8:31And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
  • Matt 17:22–23And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men:
  • John 19:11Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.
  • Acts 3:13–15The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.
  • Luke 2:51And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but 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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