Mark 8:31

Jesus begins teaching that the Son of Man must suffer, be rejected, killed, and rise again. He redefines messiahship in terms of the cross.

Cross-references · 26

• Mark 10:33–34“Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes. They will condemn Him to death and will deliver Him over to the Gentiles,
• John 2:19Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”
• Luke 24:26Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then to enter His glory?”
• Luke 17:25But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
• Hos 6:2After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.
• Mark 9:31–32because He was teaching His disciples. He told them, “The Son of Man will be delivered into the hands of men. They will kill Him, and after three days He will rise.”
• 1 Sam 10:19But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your troubles and afflictions, and you have said to Him, ‘No, set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and clans.”
• Acts 7:35This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
• Matt 16:21–28From 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.
• Mark 12:10Have you never read this Scripture: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
• Acts 7:51–52You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
• Matt 21:42Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
• Isa 53:3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
• Matt 12:40For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
• Acts 3:13–15The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus. You handed Him over and rejected Him before Pilate, even though he had decided to release Him.
• 1 Cor 15:4that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
• Ps 118:22The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
• Matt 17:22–23When they gathered together in Galilee, Jesus told them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.
• 1 Sam 8:7And the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as their king.
• Luke 18:31–34Then Jesus took the Twelve aside and said to them, “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything the prophets have written about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.
• Luke 24:44Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”
• Luke 9:22–27“The Son of Man must suffer many things,” He said. “He must be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.”
• John 12:48There is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not receive My words: The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
• Matt 20:17–19As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, He took the twelve disciples aside and said,
• Jonah 1:17Now the LORD had appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of the fish.
• Luke 24:6–7He is not here; He has risen! Remember how He told you while He was still in Galilee:

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