Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.
Matthew and Mark report Christ's words to all the disciples together, but Luke says he spoke them to Peter alone. Yet Christ likely addressed the whole company through Peter as their chief voice, for Peter above the rest needed both the warning and, after his fall, the extraordinary consolation that he should not despair utterly.
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Though the Shepherd be smitten, condemned, crucified, and buried, He will rise again. The scattered sheep will be gathered by their good Shepherd, who appears to them after His resurrection and goes before them into Galilee as He promised, where they saw and worshipped Him.
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You will all stumble and be ashamed when I am taken and abused; you will forsake and deny me. God the Father both gave me up to be smitten and Himself left me to bear the world's atonement alone. The sheep, you apostles, shall be scattered abroad, and it was fulfilled exactly as written.
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