Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
He began to teach them (hrcato didaskein autouv). Mark is fond of this idiom, but it is not a mere rhetorical device. Matthew 16:21 expressly says "from that time." They had to be told soon about the approaching death of Jesus. The confession of faith in Jesus indicated that it was a good time to begin. Death at the hands of the Sanhedrin (elders, chief priests, and scribes) in which Pharisees and Sadducees had about equal strength. The resurrection on the third day is mentioned, but it made no impression on their minds. This rainbow on the cloud was not seen.
After three days (meta treiv hmerav). Matthew 16:21 has "the third day" (th trith hmerai) in the locative case of point of time (so also Luke 9:22). There are some people who stickle for a strict interpretation of "after three days" which would be "on the fourth day," not "on the third day." Evidently Mark's phrase here has the same sense as that in Matthew and Luke else they are hopelessly contradictory. In popular language "after three days" can and often does mean "on the third day," but the fourth day is impossible.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Mark 8:31:
Matthew 12:40
Mark 5:8
Mark 8:34
Mark 9:10
Mark 9:31
Mark 10:32
Luke 9:22
John 20:9
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