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“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles.
• John 2:19Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
• Luke 24:26Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into 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, and we will live before him.
• Mark 9:31–32For 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.”
• 1 Sam 10:19But you have today rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, ‘No! Set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes, and by your thousands.”
• Acts 7:35“This Moses, whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ — God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
• Matt 16:21–28From 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.
• Mark 12:10Haven’t you even read this Scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner.
• Acts 7:51–52“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
• Matt 21:42Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?’
• Isa 53:3He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
• Matt 12:40For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man 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, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined 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 which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
• 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,
• 1 Sam 8:7Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me as the king over them.
• Luke 18:31–34He 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.
• 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.”
• Luke 9:22–27saying, “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.”
• John 12:48He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.
• Matt 20:17–19As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them,
• Jonah 1:17Yahweh 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 isn’t here, but is risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee,

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