saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.”
Christ prayed alone with His disciples before questioning them, setting a pattern we ought to follow: parents should pray with their children, masters with their servants, teachers with their pupils. When we instruct others, we must first pray for and with them, that they may be directed to answer rightly.
AI summary
Commenting on Luke 9:18-27
And he said to them all,.... Not only to all the disciples, but "to the multitude", as the Arabic version renders it, who were now called unto him, with his disciples, as is clear from Mar 8:34, any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me; the same is said here, as in Mat 16:24...
Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day. (5) Christ himself attained to the heavenly glory, by the cross and invincible perseverance.