And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.
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.”
- BSB 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.”
- 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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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.
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- Matt 16:21From 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 15:16–20And the soldiers led him away into the hall, called Praetorium; and they call together the whole band.
- 1 Cor 15:3–7For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
- 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.
- Ps 35:16With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
- Acts 2:23Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
- Matt 27:27–31Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.
- Isa 26:19Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
- Ps 22:7–8All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
- 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.
- Acts 4:27For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
- 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.
- Luke 23:11And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.
- Matt 26:67–68Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,
- John 19:1–4Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.
- Mark 15:1And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate.
- John 18:28–38Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.
- Acts 3:13–16The 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.
- Acts 21:11And when he was come unto us, he took Paul’s girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.
- Mark 14:65And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands.
- Luke 23:1–5And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate.
- 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:
- Mark 15:29–31And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days,
- Matt 27:2–10And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
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