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and will deliver Him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. And on the third day He will be raised to life.”
Matthew 20:19 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up.”
  • KJV And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.
  • NKJV and deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify. And the third day He will rise again.”
  • NASB and they will hand Him over to the Gentiles to mock and flog and crucify, and on the third day He will be raised up.”
  • NLT Then they will hand him over to the Romans to be mocked, flogged with a whip, and crucified. But on the third day he will be raised from the dead.”

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Quick answer

The Son of Man will be handed to the Gentiles to be mocked, scourged, and crucified, and will rise on the third day. Jesus foretells both his death and his resurrection.

Overview

Jesus predicts the specific shape of his suffering—Roman mockery, scourging, and crucifixion—along with his rising on the third day. The detail confirms that he embraces the cross willingly and in fulfillment of God's plan. The promise of resurrection assures that his death is not defeat but the doorway to victory and life for his people.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 24

  • Matt 16:21From 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 15:16–20Then the soldiers led Jesus away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium) and called the whole company together.
  • 1 Cor 15:3–7For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
  • 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.
  • Ps 35:16Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.
  • Acts 2:23He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.
  • Matt 27:27–31Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company around Him.
  • Isa 26:19Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.
  • Ps 22:7–8All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:
  • 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.
  • Acts 4:27In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.
  • 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.
  • Luke 23:11And even Herod and his soldiers ridiculed and mocked Him. Dressing Him in a fine robe, they sent Him back to Pilate.
  • Matt 26:67–68Then they spit in His face and struck Him. Others slapped Him
  • John 19:1–4Then Pilate took Jesus and had Him flogged.
  • Mark 15:1Early in the morning, the chief priests, elders, scribes, and the whole Sanhedrin devised a plan. They bound Jesus, led Him away, and handed Him over to Pilate.
  • John 18:28–38Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it was early morning, and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium, to avoid being defiled and unable to eat the Passover.
  • Acts 3:13–16The 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.
  • Acts 21:11Coming over to us, he took Paul’s belt, bound his own feet and hands, and said, “The Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews of Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and hand him over to the Gentiles.’”
  • Mark 14:65Then some of them began to spit on Him. They blindfolded Him, struck Him with their fists, and said to Him, “Prophesy!” And the officers received Him with slaps in His face.
  • Luke 23:1–5Then the whole council rose and led Jesus away to Pilate.
  • Luke 24:46And He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,
  • Mark 15:29–31And those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads and saying, “Aha! You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,
  • Matt 27:2–10They bound Him, led Him away, and handed Him over to Pilate the governor.

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Christ at the center

Matthew presents Jesus as the promised King — son of David, son of Abraham — the new Moses and true Israel in whom every prophecy reaches 'that it might be fulfilled.'

How Matthew 20:19 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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