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 10:33–34Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles:
• John 2:19Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
• Luke 24:26Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
• Luke 17:25But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
• Hos 6:2After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
• Mark 9:31–32For 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.
• 1 Sam 10:19And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him, Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands.
• Acts 7:35This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
• Matt 16:21–28From 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.
• Mark 12:10And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
• Acts 7:51–52Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
• Matt 21:42Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
• Isa 53:3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
• Matt 12:40For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
• 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.
• 1 Cor 15:4And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
• Ps 118:22The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.
• 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:
• 1 Sam 8:7And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
• Luke 18:31–34Then 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.
• 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.
• Luke 9:22–27Saying, 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.
• John 12:48He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
• Matt 20:17–19And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them,
• Jonah 1:17Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
• Luke 24:6–7He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,

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