"Then 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. For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on: And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again. And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken."
In today's lesson Jesus forecasts His, soon to come torture and eventual soul saving, death, burial and resurrection.
Herein Jesus said that all the prophesies concerning to coming of the Messiah were soon to be fulfilled; "all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished."
As is apparent in the last part of the quote, the Apostles, even then, still did not understand what was about to happen. They could not possibly understand because the mystery of salvation by grace, through faith, could not be accomplished until Jesus had paid, in full, the price for remittance of all sin.
We must always remember that the old law remained in full affect for the Jewish people until Jesus had fully completed His sacrificial ordeal and ascended back to the Father in heaven. By and through the completion of His ordeal, Jesus fulfilled all the requirements of the law for all who will accept His grace.
"But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved; And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." (Ephesians 2:4-9)~
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