Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 20:19

19 And shall deliver him to the Gentiles, to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.

Both Mark and Luke give us account of this Passage. Mark saith Chap. 10.32. And they were in the way going up [illegible: 1 letter]o Hierusalem, Iesus went before them, and they were amazed, and as they followed, they were afraid, and he took again the twelve, and began again to tell them, what things should happen unto him: Saying, behold we go up to Hierusalem, and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief Priests, and to the Scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, and deliver him to the Gentiles, and they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and spit upon him, and shall kill him, and the third day he shall rise again. Luke hath it Chap. 18.31. Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold we go up to Hierusalem, and all things that are written by the Prophets concerning the Son of man, shall be accomplished; for he shall be delivered to the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully intreated, [illegible: 2 letters]d spit upon, and they shall scourge him, and put him to de[illegible: 2 letters]h, 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 th[illegible: 2 letters]gs that were spoken. Our blessed Lord was yet upon his road from Galilee to Hierusalem; we have here an account of some of his travelling Discourse, to teach us to make use of all time for edifying, and profitable Discourse. Mark saith, that as they went, Iesus went before them, and they were amazed, and as they followed they were afraid. Mark gives us no account of any formidable Object in their Eye: Those that think they were amazed to see him make such hast to his death, forget that Luke saith, that after our Savior had further instructed them in this, they understood it not; But probably they knew he was going into the Nest of his Enemies, and this made them afraid. He calls to him the twelve, (it was not a Discourse fit for a Multitude) and gives them an Account very particularly of what he had twice or thrice before taught them; he had before told them of his Death and Resurrection, and that he should be betrayed to death; here he describes the manner, they should deliver him to the Gentiles, (to Pilate and Herod) he describes his previous Sufferings, he should be scourged, mocked, spit upon, and the kind of his Death, he should be crucified; that when these things came to pass, they might be assured that he was God, who had so punctually foretold things to come, not existent in their causes, but meer Contingencies, he comforteth them with two things. 1. That it was according to what had been foretold by the Prophets. 2. That tho he died, he should rise again the third Day. They had need of this fore-warning, for a fore-arming; for considering that they now looked upon him as the Messiah, it might well pose them to think how he should dy; and when they had seen all these things come to pass, it might have shaken their Faith, but being so particularly foretold, the coming of them to pass, rather confirmed their Faith in him as the Son of God, than weakened it. But Luke saith, They understood none of these things, That is, surely they believed none of them, the Saying was hid from them. The words were plain enough, but they could not reconcile them to their Reason, they could not conceive how he who was the Messiah could die: nor get over the Prejudice of his being a temporal Prince, and exercising a Kingdom in this World: For his rising again the third Day, they could not believe it.

Marginal references: Chap. [illegible: 1 span] Luke 2[illegible: 1 letter].1. John 18.[illegible: 2 letters] &c. Act. 3.13.