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29 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered and said to Him, a“You are the Christ.”  
30 aThen He strictly warned them that they should tell no one about Him.  

Jesus Predicts His Death and Resurrection

31 And aHe began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be brejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be ckilled, and after three days rise again.  
32 He spoke this word openly. Then Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him.
33 But when He had turned around and looked at His disciples, He arebuked Peter, saying, “Get behind Me, Satan! For you are not1 mindful of the things of God, but the things of men.”  

Take Up the Cross and Follow Him

34 When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, a“Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.  
35 For awhoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.  
36 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
37 Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
38 aFor whoever bis ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.” 
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Mark 8:31

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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