Matthew 16:21

Jesus begins to tell the disciples he must suffer, be killed, and rise on the third day. It matters because it reveals the cross and resurrection as the heart of his mission.

Cross-references · 25

• Luke 24:6–7He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,
• 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:
• Matt 20:17–19And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them,
• 1 Cor 15:3–4For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
• Matt 17:12But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.
• Matt 27:63Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
• Matt 20:28Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
• Acts 2:23–32Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
• Luke 17:25But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
• 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.
• John 2:19–21Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
• 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.
• 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.
• Luke 24:46And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
• Luke 24:26–27Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
• Luke 9:31Who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.
• 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.
• Mark 10:32–34And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus went before them: and they were amazed; and as they followed, they were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things should happen unto him,
• Matt 27:12And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.
• Matt 26:47And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
• Luke 9:44–45Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.
• Matt 26:2Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
• 1 Chr 24:1–19Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
• Matt 16:28Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.
• Neh 12:7Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.

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