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Mark10:32–34

The Third Prediction of the Passion

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Mark 10:32–34 — The Third Prediction of the Passion. Each verse below carries the full apparatus: the Berean Standard Bible, the vocalized original (tap any word), and a parsed breakdown of every term transcribed from the interlinear. Synthesized commentary, canonical threads, and the reading of Christ gather at the end, over the whole unit.

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As they were going up the road to Jerusalem, Jesus was walking ahead of them. The disciples were amazed, but those who followed were afraid. Again Jesus took the Twelve aside and began to tell them what was going to happen to Him:

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de Ēsan anabainontes en tē hodō eis Hierosolyma kai ho Iēsous ēn proagōn autous kai ethambounto de hoi akolouthountes ephobounto kai palin paralabōn tous dōdeka ērxato legein autois ta mellonta symbainein autō

Word by word32 · parsed
δὲde[As]G1161
√ δέ — but, and, etcConjunction
ἮσανĒsanthey wereG1510
√ εἰμί — I exist (used only when emphatic)VerbImperfect Indicative Active3rd Person Plural
ἀναβαίνοντεςanabainontesgoing upG305
√ ἀναβαίνω — to go up (literally or figuratively)VerbPresent Participle ActiveNominative Masculine Plural
ἀναβαίνω: to go up, ascend The pilgrim's verb. Every festival road to Jerusalem is an ascent, and Mark lets the topography carry the theology: the way up is the way to the cross. Maclaren places the scene on “the steep rocky mountain road that leads up from Jericho to Jerusalem”; JFB prefers Perea, “somewhere between Ephraim and Jericho.” The sources differ on the milepost and agree on the direction.
ἐνenG1722
√ ἐν — "in," at, (up-)on, by, etcPreposition
τῇtētheG3588
√ ὁ — the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)ArticleDative Feminine Singular
ὁδῷhodōroadG3598
√ ὁδός — a roadNounDative Feminine Singular
ὁδός: a road, way Dative of place. In Mark the ὁδός is where discipleship is taught and where it fails: the argument about greatness, the blind man's cry, this dread procession. The word is plain; its placement is not.
εἰςeistoG1519
√ εἰς — to or into (indicating the point reached or entered), of place, time, or (figuratively) purpose (result, etcPreposition
ἹεροσόλυμαHierosolymaJerusalemG2414
√ Ἱεροσόλυμα — Hierosolyma (iNounAccusative Neuter Plural
καὶkaiG2532
√ καί — and, also, even, so then, too, etcConjunction
ὁhoG3588
√ ὁ — the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)ArticleNominative Masculine Singular
ἸησοῦςIēsousJesusG2424
√ Ἰησοῦς — Jesus (iNounNominative Masculine Singular
ἦνēnwasG1510
√ εἰμί — I exist (used only when emphatic)VerbImperfect Indicative Active3rd Person Singular
προάγωνproagōnwalking ahead ofG4254
√ προάγω — to lead forward (magisterially)VerbPresent Participle ActiveNominative Masculine Singular
προάγω: to lead forward, go before The participle that governs the whole scene. Gill reads it vocationally: “as their forerunner, their guide and leader, with unconcernedness and intrepidity.” Mark will use this same verb after the resurrection, when the risen one “goes before” them into Galilee (Mark 14:28; 16:7), so that the one who walks in front toward death is the one who walks in front out of the tomb.
αὐτοὺςautousthemG846
√ αὐτός — the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative G1438 (ἑαυτοῦ)) of the third person , and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other personsPersonal / Possessive PronounAccusative Masculine 3rd Person Plural
καὶkaiG2532
√ καί — and, also, even, so then, too, etcConjunction
ἐθαμβοῦντοethambounto[The disciples] were amazedG2284
√ θαμβέω — to stupefy (with surprise), iVerbImperfect Indicative Middle or Passive3rd Person Plural
θαμβέω: to stupefy with surprise Imperfect middle or passive: the astonishment is continuous and is worked upon them. Of the three verses in the Greek New Testament that carry this lexeme, two are in this chapter (v. 24, at the saying about riches) and one is the synagogue at Capernaum (Mark 1:27). Mark reserves the word for the moments when Jesus' words or bearing break the categories of those watching. Barnes grounds the shock in a plain human fact: “They were amazed that, when he knew so well what would happen, he should still persevere in going up to the city.” Benson locates it rather in the contrast between the danger and his manner, “his courage and intrepidity.”
δὲdebutG1161
√ δέ — but, and, etcConjunction
οἱhoithose whoG3588
√ ὁ — the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)ArticleNominative Masculine Plural
ἀκολουθοῦντεςakolouthountesfollowedG190
√ ἀκολουθέω — properly, to be in the same way with, iVerbPresent Participle ActiveNominative Masculine Plural
ἀκολουθέω: to follow, be on the same way with Strong's glosses the root “properly, to be in the same way with.” Mark's participle is substantival (“those following”), and the Pulpit Commentary, with Cambridge, reads the better text as distinguishing two groups: the Twelve in front, stupefied, and a wider band behind, afraid. The word for discipleship is here the word for the people who trailed behind and did not understand.
ἐφοβοῦντοephobountowere afraidG5399
√ φοβέω — to frighten, iVerbImperfect Indicative Middle or Passive3rd Person Plural
φοβέω: to frighten, be afraid Imperfect, like ἐθαμβοῦντο: sustained dread, not a start. Benson divides it honestly: they were afraid “Both for him and themselves.” Gill says they “could not expect any other than ill usage from his enemies,” and Bede, quoted in the Pulpit Commentary, makes their own fear of death the chief cause. Awe and self-preservation are not separated in the text.
καὶkaiG2532
√ καί — and, also, even, so then, too, etcConjunction
πάλινpalinAgainG3825
√ πάλιν — (adverbially) anew, iAdverb
πάλιν: again, anew The single adverb that makes this the third telling. Cambridge lists the prior two: Mark 8:31 near Caesarea Philippi and Mark 9:30-32 on the return to Capernaum.
παραλαβὼνparalabōn[Jesus] tookG3880
√ παραλαμβάνω — to receive near, iVerbAorist Participle ActiveNominative Masculine Singular
παραλαμβάνω: to take alongside, receive near Aorist participle: one deliberate act inside the continuous imperfects around it. The verb is used of receiving a tradition as well as of taking a person along; here the thing received near is the Twelve themselves, drawn out of the crowd to be told what the crowd is not told.
τοὺςtoustheG3588
√ ὁ — the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)ArticleAccusative Masculine Plural
δώδεκαdōdekaTwelve {aside}G1427
√ δώδεκα — two and ten, iAdjectiveAccusative Masculine Plural
δώδεκα: twelve Ellicott presses the implication: “The special mention of ‘the Twelve’ implies that there were other disciples,” possibly the Seventy and the women who followed. The number is a boundary line drawn inside a larger company.
ἤρξατοērxato[and] beganG756
√ ἄρχομαι — to commence (in order of time)VerbAorist Indicative Middle3rd Person Singular
ἄρχομαι: to commence, begin Aorist middle with the present infinitive λέγειν: “he began to be telling them.” Mark uses this construction to open a stretch of teaching rather than to report a single sentence, which suits Poole's observation that Christ “describeth his sufferings more particularly than before.”
λέγεινlegeinto tellG3004
√ λέγω — properly, to "lay" forth, iVerbPresent Infinitive Active
αὐτοῖςautoisthemG846
√ αὐτός — the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative G1438 (ἑαυτοῦ)) of the third person , and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other personsPersonal / Possessive PronounDative Masculine 3rd Person Plural
τὰtawhatG3588
√ ὁ — the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)ArticleAccusative Neuter Plural
μέλλονταmellontawas goingG3195
√ μέλλω — to intend, iVerbPresent Participle ActiveAccusative Neuter Plural
συμβαίνεινsymbaineinto happenG4819
√ συμβαίνω — to walk (figuratively, transpire) together, iVerbPresent Infinitive Active
συμβαίνω: to happen, transpire together A rare lexeme (eight verses). Its root sense, “to walk together,” carries the idea of events converging. It recurs on the Emmaus road for “all these things which had happened” (Luke 24:14): what Jesus here calls the things about to converge on him, the bewildered disciples afterwards recount as the things that did.
αὐτῷautōto HimG846
√ αὐτός — the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative G1438 (ἑαυτοῦ)) of the third person , and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other personsPersonal / Possessive PronounDative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
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“Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes. They will condemn Him to death and will deliver Him over to the Gentiles,

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hoti Idou anabainomen eis Hierosolyma kai ho Huios tou anthrōpou paradothēsetai tois archiereusin kai tois grammateusin kai katakrinousin auton thanatō kai paradōsousin auton tois ethnesin

Word by word25 · parsed
ὅτιhotiG3754
√ ὅτι — demonstrative, that (sometimes redundant)Conjunction
ἸδοὺIdouLookG2400
√ ἰδού — used as imperative lo!VerbAorist Imperative Active2nd Person Singular
ἰδού: behold, lo An imperative in form, functioning as a pointer. Placed at the head of the third and fullest prediction, it turns a private briefing into a summons to look at what the disciples have three times refused to see. Luke's parallel adds that even so “they understood none of these things” (cited by both Poole and JFB).
ἀναβαίνομενanabainomenwe are going upG305
√ ἀναβαίνω — to go up (literally or figuratively)VerbPresent Indicative Active1st Person Plural
εἰςeistoG1519
√ εἰς — to or into (indicating the point reached or entered), of place, time, or (figuratively) purpose (result, etcPreposition
ἹεροσόλυμαHierosolymaJerusalemG2414
√ Ἱεροσόλυμα — Hierosolyma (iNounAccusative Neuter Plural
καὶkaiandG2532
√ καί — and, also, even, so then, too, etcConjunction
ὁhotheG3588
√ ὁ — the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)ArticleNominative Masculine Singular
ΥἱὸςHuiosSonG5207
√ υἱός — a "son" (sometimes of animals), used very widely of immediate, remote or figuratively, kinshipNounNominative Masculine Singular
υἱός: son With τοῦ ἀνθρώπου it forms Mark's standing self-designation. Gill states the plain referent: “meaning himself.” The title is the hinge of the sentence, because the subject who bears dominion in Daniel's vision is here the object of a verb of surrender.
τοῦtouG3588
√ ὁ — the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)ArticleGenitive Masculine Singular
ἀνθρώπουanthrōpouof ManG444
√ ἄνθρωπος — from G3700 (ὀπτάνομαι))NounGenitive Masculine Singular
ἄνθρωπος: man, human being Genitive of relation. “The Son of Man” in Greek is a Semitic idiom, not a claim about ancestry; the phrase can mean simply “the human one,” which is why the same title can carry both the frailty handed over in this verse and the glory of the one who comes on the clouds.
παραδοθήσεταιparadothēsetaiwill be delivered overG3860
√ παραδίδωμι — to surrender, iVerbFuture Indicative Passive3rd Person Singular
παραδίδωμι: to hand over, surrender, betray Future passive, the load-bearing verb of the whole prediction, and it occurs twice in this verse: once passive with no agent, once active with the priests as subject. Benson reads the repetition of the prophecy as proof that the sufferings were “entirely voluntary”; the grammar supports him, since the passive leaves room for the Father's giving and the Son's self-giving as well as for Judas's treachery.
τοῖςtoisto theG3588
√ ὁ — the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)ArticleDative Masculine Plural
ἀρχιερεῦσινarchiereusinchief priestsG749
√ ἀρχιερεύς — the high-priest (literally, of the Jews, typically, Christ)NounDative Masculine Plural
ἀρχιερεύς: high priest Plural: the priestly establishment, not one man. Strong's notes the word is used “typically, of Christ” in Hebrews, which sharpens the irony of the sentence: the chief priests receive the true high priest as a prisoner.
καὶkaiandG2532
√ καί — and, also, even, so then, too, etcConjunction
τοῖςtoisG3588
√ ὁ — the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)ArticleDative Masculine Plural
γραμματεῦσινgrammateusinscribesG1122
√ γραμματεύς — scribe, town-clerkNounDative Masculine Plural
γραμματεύς: scribe, town clerk The interpreters of the law join the officers of the temple. Together they make the full Jewish tribunal, which is why the next verb can be κατακρινοῦσιν, a judicial word.
καὶkaiG2532
√ καί — and, also, even, so then, too, etcConjunction
κατακρινοῦσινkatakrinousinThey will condemnG2632
√ κατακρίνω — to judge against, iVerbFuture Indicative Active3rd Person Plural
κατακρίνω: to judge against, condemn Future active. Strong's gives the compound force exactly: to judge against. Gill notes the historical shape of the fulfilment, that the sentence in the high priest's palace was passed “nemine contradicente,” with no dissenting voice (Mark 14:64).
αὐτὸνautonHimG846
√ αὐτός — the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative G1438 (ἑαυτοῦ)) of the third person , and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other personsPersonal / Possessive PronounAccusative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
θανάτῳthanatōto deathG2288
√ θάνατος — (properly, an adjective used as a noun) death (literally or figuratively)NounDative Masculine Singular
καὶkaiandG2532
√ καί — and, also, even, so then, too, etcConjunction
παραδώσουσινparadōsousinwill deliverG3860
√ παραδίδωμι — to surrender, iVerbFuture Indicative Active3rd Person Plural
παραδίδωμι: to hand over The second occurrence, now active and plural: the ones who received him hand him on. Mark's chain of deliveries (disciple to priests, priests to nations) is the structure of the passion narrative in advance.
αὐτὸνautonHim {over}G846
√ αὐτός — the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative G1438 (ἑαυτοῦ)) of the third person , and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other personsPersonal / Possessive PronounAccusative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
τοῖςtoisto theG3588
√ ὁ — the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)ArticleDative Neuter Plural
ἔθνεσινethnesinGentilesG1484
√ ἔθνος — a race (as of the same habit), iNounDative Neuter Plural
ἔθνος: nation, Gentile JFB marks the newness: “This is the first express statement that the Gentiles would combine with the Jews in His death.” The two halves of humanity, on the reading JFB takes from Webster and Wilkinson, are both implicated in the one execution.
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who will mock Him and spit on Him and flog Him and kill Him. And after three days He will rise again.”

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kai empaixousin autō kai emptysousin autō kai mastigōsousin kai apoktenousin auton kai meta treis hēmeras anastēsetai

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καὶkaiG2532
√ καί — and, also, even, so then, too, etcConjunction
ἐμπαίξουσινempaixousin[who] will mockG1702
√ ἐμπαίζω — to jeer at, iVerbFuture Indicative Active3rd Person Plural
ἐμπαίζω: to jeer at, make sport of Future active with a dative object. The verb belongs to the vocabulary of games and children's play, which is what makes it so ugly here: the Son of Man is not merely insulted but made into entertainment. Cambridge notes that Matthew's parallel adds the word Mark withholds, “crucify Him,” so that “Now for the first time is revealed this last, this greatest horror.”
αὐτῷautōHimG846
√ αὐτός — the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative G1438 (ἑαυτοῦ)) of the third person , and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other personsPersonal / Possessive PronounDative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
καὶkaiandG2532
√ καί — and, also, even, so then, too, etcConjunction
ἐμπτύσουσινemptysousinspit onG1716
√ ἐμπτύω — to spit at or onVerbFuture Indicative Active3rd Person Plural
ἐμπτύω: to spit at or on Rare: six verses. The Verifier finds it shared with Mark 14:65 and 15:19 and with Matthew 26:67 and 27:30, that is, with both the Jewish and the Roman scenes of contempt. In this prediction it is assigned to the nations; in the fulfilment the priests' servants do it too, so the spitting outruns the prediction rather than falling short of it.
αὐτῷautōHimG846
√ αὐτός — the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative G1438 (ἑαυτοῦ)) of the third person , and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other personsPersonal / Possessive PronounDative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
καὶkaiandG2532
√ καί — and, also, even, so then, too, etcConjunction
μαστιγώσουσινmastigōsousinflog [Him]G3146
√ μαστιγόω — to flog (literally or figuratively)VerbFuture Indicative Active3rd Person Plural
μαστιγόω: to flog, scourge Seven verses in the Greek New Testament. The word covers the Roman flagellum of John 19:1, the synagogue floggings promised to the disciples in Matthew 10:17, and, startlingly, the discipline of sons in Hebrews 12:6. The same verb that describes what will be done to the Son describes what the Father does to those he receives.
καὶkaiandG2532
√ καί — and, also, even, so then, too, etcConjunction
ἀποκτενοῦσινapoktenousinkillG615
√ ἀποκτείνω — to kill outrightVerbFuture Indicative Active3rd Person Plural
ἀποκτείνω: to kill outright Strong's force is blunt: kill outright. Mark's prediction names the deed without naming the cross; Cambridge observes that the manner of death is supplied only in Matthew's parallel.
αὐτὸνautonHimG846
√ αὐτός — the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative G1438 (ἑαυτοῦ)) of the third person , and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other personsPersonal / Possessive PronounAccusative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
καὶkaiAndG2532
√ καί — and, also, even, so then, too, etcConjunction
μετὰmetaafterG3326
√ μετά — properly, denoting accompanimentPreposition
μετά: after, with With the accusative of time it means “after.” Mark's “after three days” rather than “on the third day” is his settled idiom and is reckoned inclusively in Jewish counting; the commentators in this brief all quote the alternative English phrase.
τρεῖςtreisthreeG5140
√ τρεῖς — "three"AdjectiveAccusative Feminine Plural
τρεῖς: three The number stands with the same lexeme in the first prediction (Mark 8:31). Its warrant in the Scriptures is asserted by Paul (1 Corinthians 15:4) without a citation, which is why the usual proof texts are flagged rather than confirmed below.
ἡμέραςhēmerasdaysG2250
√ ἡμέρα — day, iNounAccusative Feminine Plural
ἀναστήσεταιanastēsetaiHe will rise againG450
√ ἀνίστημι — to stand up (literal or figurative, transitive or intransitive)VerbFuture Indicative Middle3rd Person Singular
ἀνίστημι: to stand up, rise Future middle, third person singular. Everything before this verb happens to him; this one he does. Mark does not here say he “was raised” (a passive the apostolic preaching also uses), and the difference should not be flattened: in this sentence the resurrection is the act of the one handed over. Poole draws the pastoral use, that the premonition “was afterwards of use to them, they remembered the words of Jesus when the things were come to pass.”

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i. The one out in front — Mark 10:32

Mark's sentence is built out of imperfects: they were going up, he was leading, they were being stupefied, those following were fearing. Nothing here is a snapshot; it is a procession held in motion. The governing word is προάγων (proagōn, G4254), which Ellicott insists be rendered “was leading the way,” and which Strong's glosses “to lead forward (magisterially).” JFB, crediting Grotius, hears in it “the style of an intrepid Leader”; Cambridge quotes Trench to the same effect, “After the manner of some leader who heartens his soldiers by choosing the place of danger for himself”; Gill calls him “their forerunner, their guide and leader.” Barnes presses the cost: he exposes “himself” to danger and death rather than his followers.

Behind him, Mark splits the company. The Pulpit Commentary and Cambridge both read the better text as distinguishing the utter stupefaction of the Twelve from the fear of the wider band (οἱ δὲ ἀκολουθοῦντες ἐφοβοῦντο), and the Pulpit Commentary points out that ἐθαμβοῦντο is “the same word which is used at ver. 24,” eight verses earlier, where the saying about riches stupefied them. Maclaren fills the picture in with sympathetic imagination, a fixed purpose stamped on the face and haste in the stride, and he is candid that he is reading the picture; Ellicott is candid in the other direction, saying that the remembered feeling is vivid but “the facts related hardly give a sufficient explanation.” Benson and Gill both supply the missing fact from John 11:57, the standing order for his arrest, which would explain why alacrity on this road looked like recklessness. ⚙ The honest reading keeps Ellicott's gap open: Mark records an awe he does not explain.

ii. The chain of handings over — Mark 10:33

The prediction is a chain of deliveries, and the link is one verb used twice: παραδοθήσεται, future passive with no agent named, then παραδώσουσιν, future active with the priests as subject. Gill fills the unnamed agency of the passive with two answers at once, “the determinate counsel, and foreknowledge of God, and by the means of a treacherous disciple of his, Judas,” and the grammar is what lets him: the passive says only that he is handed over. Poole traces the sequence Mark has newly made explicit, first to the chief priests and scribes who condemn, then to the Gentiles, “such were the Romans and Pontius Pilate.” JFB marks this as the decisive new element in the third telling: “This is the first express statement that the Gentiles would combine with the Jews in His death,” and, following Webster and Wilkinson, sees the two grand divisions of humanity joined in one act.

Two smaller things the English does not show. Ἰδοὺ is an imperative form, a command to look, standing at the head of the fullest disclosure yet; and θανάτῳ is a bare dative, death handed to him along with the verdict. Meanwhile ἀναβαίνομεν is first person plural. Benson draws the purpose of the repetition: it “showed the disciples they were entirely voluntary.” Geneva puts the pastoral aim more plainly still, that the disciples “are again prepared not to be overcome” by the foretelling of a death that was at hand.

iii. Four things done to him, and one he does — Mark 10:34

Four future actives fall on him in a row, joined by καί after καί: they will jeer, spit, flog, kill. Two of the four are rare verbs. ἐμπτύω (G1716) stands in six verses of the Greek New Testament, and the Verifier finds every other one attached to this same face: Mark 14:65 and 15:19, Matthew 26:67 and 27:30, Luke 18:32. μαστιγόω (G3146) stands in seven, among them John 19:1, the flogging promised to the disciples in Matthew 10:17, and the Father's discipline of sons in Hebrews 12:6. Gill refuses to let the list be read as a timetable: “according to the order in which these things were executed, he was first scourged, then mocked, and then spit upon.” Ellicott notes that the spitting is Mark's and Luke's detail here, not Matthew's; Cambridge notes the reverse, that Matthew alone supplies the word Mark withholds, “crucify Him,” so that with him “Now for the first time is revealed this last, this greatest horror.”

Then the grammar turns. ἀναστήσεται is future middle: he will stand himself up. It is the only verb in the sentence whose subject is the one everything else is done to. And still, JFB observes with Luke 18:34, the words were plain and the import impenetrable: “The meaning of the words they could be at no loss to understand, but their import in relation to His Messianic kingdom they could not penetrate.” Cambridge calls that absence of sympathy one of his greatest trials. Poole turns it toward the preacher instead of the disciple: “Preachers' words are not lost, though at present they be not believed or hearkened to.”

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⚙ Fallible reading, offered to be tested. Mark has put a geography and a grammar in front of us and let them interpret each other. The geography is an ascent: ἀναβαίνω is the pilgrim's verb, used by the narrator in v. 32 and by Jesus in v. 33, so that the road every Israelite climbed for the feast is the road he climbs to be the offering. The grammar is a sequence of surrenders: one verb, παραδίδωμι, carries him from an unnamed hand into the priests' hands and from the priests' hands into the nations' hands, and the first of the two is passive, which is precisely why Gill can name both God's counsel and Judas's treachery without choosing. What the disciples cannot hold, on this reading, is not the information but the direction of travel. They are stupefied because the one in front is walking toward the thing they expect a Messiah to walk away from, and the word Mark uses for their stupefaction (θαμβέω, three verses in the whole Greek New Testament, two of them in this chapter) is the word for the moment his teaching breaks their categories, as it did eight verses earlier about riches. Note what the text does not say: it does not say they were rebuked for the fear. Mark lets fear and following stand in the same clause. And note the one place the passive gives way: after four futures in which he is the object of jeering, spitting, flogging and killing, ἀναστήσεται is middle. He stands himself up. If that reading of the voice is right, then the whole passage is a single claim, that the one who is handed over is not thereby taken out of his own hands. I hold it as a reading, not as a proof; the middle voice can be intransitive in this verb without pressing self-agency, and the apostolic preaching is just as willing to say that God raised him.

Four verbs are done to him and one he does; the last one is in the middle voice.

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The word Mark keeps for broken categories verbal / quotation: confirmed

ἐθαμβοῦντο (thambeō, G2284) stands in only three verses of the Greek New Testament, and two of them are in this chapter. Eight verses earlier the disciples are stupefied at the saying about riches (Mark 10:24), and the first is the Capernaum synagogue, where the crowd is stupefied at a teaching with authority (Mark 1:27). The Pulpit Commentary makes the link to v. 24 explicitly: it is “the same word which is used at ver. 24.” ⚙ On the strength of that distribution, Mark appears to reserve the verb for the moment his words or his bearing overturn what the hearers assumed was possible, which is a narrower use than English “amazed” suggests.

Mark 10:24 · Mark 1:27

basis: Verifier: shared Greek lexeme G2284 θαμβέω (in 3 vv), a genuinely rare word whose three occurrences are Mark 1:27, Mark 10:24 and this verse; Greek to Greek within one Gospel, so the verbal link is real. No quotation is claimed.

The spitting: a rare verb that only ever means this face verbal / quotation: confirmed

ἐμπτύω (G1716) occurs in six verses of the Greek New Testament. This prediction is one; the parallel prediction in Luke 18:32 is another; the remaining four are the fulfilment, twice before the Sanhedrin (Mark 14:65; Matthew 26:67) and twice before the soldiers (Mark 15:19; Matthew 27:30). ⚙ The word has no other use in the New Testament. Worth noting against the prediction: here the spitting is assigned to the nations, yet in the fulfilment the Jewish court does it as well, so the narrative exceeds the forecast rather than being tailored to it.

Mark 14:65 · Mark 15:19 · Matthew 26:67 · Matthew 27:30 · Luke 18:32

basis: Verifier: shared Greek lexeme G1716 ἐμπτύω (in 6 vv), rare, with Mark 14:65, Mark 15:19, Matthew 26:67, Matthew 27:30 and Luke 18:32; all refs are Greek New Testament, so the lexical link is direct. A verbal link, not a quotation.

Flogged: the Son, the disciples, and the sons verbal / quotation: confirmed

μαστιγόω (G3146) stands in seven verses. Three are this prediction and its Synoptic parallels (Matthew 20:19; Luke 18:33). One is the event, John 19:1. Two turn the verb on the disciples: “they will flog you in their synagogues” (Matthew 10:17), and the scribes and prophets scourged in Matthew 23:34. The seventh is Hebrews 12:6, where the same verb describes the Father's chastening of every son he receives. ⚙ The Verifier's own candidate list puts Hebrews 12:6 next to this verse on the shared pair G5207 υἱός and G3146 μαστιγόω. That coincidence of lexemes is real; the theological inference from it is mine, offered cautiously: Mark's Son is flogged by men, and Hebrews' sons are scourged by God, and the two uses are not the same act.

Matthew 20:19 · Luke 18:33 · John 19:1 · Matthew 10:17 · Hebrews 12:6

basis: Verifier: shared Greek lexeme G3146 μαστιγόω (in 7 vv), rare, with Matthew 20:19, Luke 18:33, John 19:1, Matthew 10:17 and Hebrews 12:6 (the last also sharing G5207 υἱός, in 344 vv); all Greek New Testament. The verbal link is the lexeme; the connection drawn between the two kinds of scourging is synthesis, not quotation.

The things about to happen, and the things that had happened verbal / quotation: confirmed

συμβαίνειν (symbainō, G4819) is rare, eight verses, and its root sense is “to walk together,” of events converging. Jesus tells the Twelve “the things about to happen to him”; on the Emmaus road two of that company are talking about “all these things which had happened” (Luke 24:14), still not understanding them. ⚙ Poole's note is the bridge: the premonition “was afterwards of use to them, they remembered the words of Jesus when the things were come to pass.” Acts 3:10 carries the same lexeme in the same sense of a thing that has befallen a man.

Luke 24:14 · Acts 3:10

basis: Verifier: shared Greek lexeme G4819 συμβαίνω (in 8 vv) with Luke 24:14 and Acts 3:10; Greek to Greek, a real and relatively rare verbal link. The reading of Luke 24:14 as the retrospect on this forecast is synthesis.

He goes before them: to the cross, and out of the tomb structural / thematic: confirmed

The participle that frames this scene, προάγων (proagō, G4254), returns twice more in Mark, both times after the cross is in view: “I will go before you into Galilee” (Mark 14:28) and the angel's “He is going ahead of you into Galilee” (Mark 16:7). ⚙ I checked the pair with the Verifier rather than asserting it. The same word describes the walk toward death and the walk away from the grave. Gill's gloss on v. 32, “as their forerunner, their guide and leader,” already points this way, though he does not make the connection to chapter 16; the extension is mine and I mark it as such.

Mark 14:28 · Mark 16:7

basis: Verifier pair check: shared Greek lexeme G4254 προάγω (in 20 vv) with both Mark 14:28 and Mark 16:7. At 20 verses the lexeme is not rare enough to carry a verbal tier on its own, so the link is recorded as structural: one Evangelist's repeated word for a repeated pattern.

The back given to the smiters typological

Mark makes no citation here, and none should be claimed. But the four things listed in v. 34 stand in the same order and register as the Servant's own account: “I gave my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard, I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting” (Isaiah 50:6), and the despised and afflicted figure of Isaiah 53:3-12 who is led to slaughter and yet sees his offspring. ⚙ The correspondence is of pattern, not of wording: Mark's Greek verbs cannot share a Strong's number with Isaiah's Hebrew, and Jesus does not here say “as it is written.” Benson reports that he told the disciples elsewhere that these things “had been predicted by the prophets,” which is Luke's point at Luke 18:31 rather than Mark's wording at this verse. The link is strong and it is figural.

Isaiah 50:6 · Isaiah 53:3-12

basis: Ancient and widely-held figural reading. Cross-Testament: Greek to Hebrew, so no shared Strong's lexeme is possible and no verbal tier is available. Mark records no formal quotation formula at 10:33-34. Recorded as a figural reading of the Servant songs onto the passion, which is the ancient and widely-held apostolic reading, not a claim about Mark's wording.

The one who receives dominion is the one handed over structural / thematic: confirmed

The title in v. 33 is ὁ Υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, and the figure behind it in Daniel 7:13-14 is brought before the Ancient of Days to receive dominion and a kingdom that shall not pass away. Mark's sentence puts that figure in the accusative and dative: he is handed over, condemned, handed over again. ⚙ JFB's comment that the disciples clung to “the popular notion of an ‘unsuffering’ Messiah” describes exactly the collision: the title they had learned to hear as enthronement is the title under which he announces his execution. The link cannot be verbal, since Daniel's phrase is Aramaic and Mark's is Greek, and the idiom in Greek can mean no more than “the human one.”

Daniel 7:13-14

basis: Cross-Testament: Greek ὁ Υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου against Aramaic bar enash, so shared Strong's numbers are impossible and a verbal tier is excluded. Recorded as structural: a shared title and a shared setting of judgment and dominion, with the New Testament's usage of the phrase, not a quotation, as the basis.

“After three days”: a Scripture asserted but never named flagged: verify source

Mark writes μετὰ τρεῖς ἡμέρας, “after three days,” where Matthew and Luke write “on the third day,” and every commentator in this brief quotes the latter phrase. Paul says the resurrection was “on the third day according to the Scriptures” (1 Corinthians 15:4) without naming a text. The texts usually offered are Hosea 6:2, “on the third day he will raise us up,” and Psalm 16:10, “you will not let your Holy One see decay,” which Peter does cite at Pentecost, though for incorruption rather than for the third day. ⚙ I flag this rather than confirm it. No New Testament writer quotes Hosea 6:2 for the resurrection, Hosea's referent in context is the nation rather than an individual, and the provenance of the “third day” proof text is genuinely disputed. The honest statement is that Mark's timing claim is explicit and its scriptural warrant here is unstated.

Hosea 6:2 · Psalm 16:10 · 1 Corinthians 15:4

basis: Contested provenance. Cross-Testament, so no shared Strong's lexeme is possible; and unlike Psalm 16:10 (cited at Acts 2:27), Hosea 6:2 is nowhere quoted in the New Testament for the resurrection. The customary identification of the Scripture behind “on the third day” is a traditional inference, not a recorded citation, and is flagged for the reader to check.

Afraid to come near the one whose face has changed typological

Mark's odd double reaction, stupefaction in front and fear behind, has an older shape: Moses comes down with his face altered, “and when Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face was radiant, and they were afraid to come near him” (Exodus 34:30). ⚙ The parallel is figural and I claim nothing lexical for it. What it illuminates is the thing Ellicott admits the narrative does not explain, why the plain fact of a journey produced terror: on both roads the mediator's bearing, and not his message alone, is what makes the people keep their distance. Maclaren reads Mark's scene in just this way, as a purpose stamped on the face; that is his reconstruction, and the comparison to Exodus is mine.

Exodus 34:30

basis: Novel figural reading, this tool's own. Cross-Testament: Greek to Hebrew, so no shared Strong's lexeme exists and a verbal tier is excluded. Recorded as a figural comparison of pattern (a mediator going ahead whose aspect makes the people afraid to approach), offered as this tool's own reading and not attributed to any source in the brief.

⚙Christ in the Unittypology · verify

AI-generated reading; weigh it against the text.

The handed-over Son of Man ancient/widely-held

⚙ The whole prediction hangs on one verb used twice, παραδίδωμι (G3860), and the first use is a passive with no agent: he will be handed over. Gill names both hands at once, “the determinate counsel, and foreknowledge of God, and by the means of a treacherous disciple of his, Judas,” and the apostolic preaching uses the same verb the same way, of God who “delivered him over for our trespasses” (Romans 4:25) and of the Father who “did not spare his own Son” (Romans 8:32). JFB adds the new element in this third telling, that here for the first time “the Gentiles would combine with the Jews in His death,” the two halves of humanity implicated in one execution. Benson draws the conclusion the repetition was meant to secure: the sufferings were “entirely voluntary.” This is the ancient reading, recorded across Benson, Gill, JFB and Geneva alike.

Romans 4:25 · Romans 8:32 · Isaiah 53:6

The Servant's four indignities ancient/widely-held

⚙ Mark's four futures (jeer, spit, flog, kill) are the Servant's own list in Isaiah 50:6, back and cheeks and face given over, and the outcome of Isaiah 53, cut off and yet prolonging his days. No citation formula appears in Mark, so this is a figural reading and not a quotation, and I mark it so. What the Greek adds to the figure is the case-shift: ἐμπαίξουσιν and ἐμπτύσουσιν take the dative, mockery and spittle aimed at him, while μαστιγώσουσιν and ἀποκτενοῦσιν take the accusative, the body seized. Contempt and violence are distinguished by grammar and both are borne. Cambridge notes that the last horror, crucifixion, is named only in Matthew's parallel; Mark lets “kill him” stand bare.

Isaiah 50:6 · Isaiah 53:5 · Isaiah 53:12

He stands himself up novel

⚙ ἀναστήσεται (G450) is future middle. After four verbs in which the Son of Man is the object, the subject changes and he is the one who acts: he will stand up. I offer this as a reading and not as a proof, because this verb's middle can function intransitively without pressing self-agency, and the apostolic preaching is equally willing to say God raised him. But the sentence as Mark writes it gives the last word to the one handed over, and it is Mark who will use προάγω again for the risen one going ahead of them into Galilee (Mark 14:28; 16:7), the same word he uses here for the one going ahead of them to Jerusalem. The forerunner to the cross is the forerunner from the tomb.

Mark 14:28 · Mark 16:7 · John 10:18

Apparatus & Provenance

The biblical text is the Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain (CC0). Hebrew/Greek text, transliteration, morphology and Strong’s are transcribed from the Berean interlinear (CC0) + Strong’s lexicons (PD); the literal renderings, divergence notes, word notes and all synthesis are this tool’s own work (⚙) — fallible; verify them.

Named voices, quoted verbatim from public-domain works:

  • Albert Barnes, Notes on the Bible (1834)
  • Alexander Maclaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture (c. 1905)
  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges, — (1880s)
  • Charles Ellicott, Commentary for English Readers (1878)
  • Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory (1871)
  • John Gill, Exposition of the Entire Bible (1746–63)
  • Joseph Benson, Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1810s)
  • Matthew Henry, Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible (1706)
  • The Pulpit Commentary, Spence & Exell, eds. (1880s)

Text: BSB (CC0) with the Berean interlinear and Strong's numbers; commentary verbatim and public domain, cited by name. What is uncertain, and where this unit is thin:

1. Two groups or one. The Pulpit Commentary and Cambridge both read the better text of v. 32 as distinguishing the amazed Twelve from a wider band of frightened followers (οἱ δὲ ἀκολουθοῦντες ἐφοβοῦντο) rather than “as they followed, they were afraid.” The older English commentators in this brief (Benson, Barnes, Gill, Geneva, Poole) quote the other reading. BSB follows the former. This is a real variant, and the notes above follow BSB while naming the disagreement.

2. Readings Gill rejects. Gill records that the Vulgate adds “and to the elders” at v. 33 and that the Persic inserts “and shall put him in a grave” at v. 34, and he states that neither is in the copies. His judgment is reported here, not independently verified.

3. “After three days.” Mark's μετὰ τρεῖς ἡμέρας is not the “third day” idiom of Matthew and Luke, and every commentator in this brief quotes the received English “the third day.” The scriptural warrant for the third day is flagged rather than confirmed in the threads: no New Testament text quotes Hosea 6:2 for the resurrection.

4. Geography. The sources disagree about where the road was. Maclaren and the Pulpit Commentary place it on the ascent from Jericho; JFB places it in Perea, northeast of Jerusalem; Cambridge has him descending from Ephraim to join the pilgrim caravans. Nothing in the Greek settles it, and no reading above depends on the answer.

5. What the text does not say. Ellicott states plainly that the recorded feeling outruns the recorded facts: the disciples' terror is vivid, but “the facts related hardly give a sufficient explanation.” Benson and Gill supply a cause from John 11:57. That is a reasonable inference from another Gospel, not something Mark says. The Exodus 34:30 comparison in the threads is this tool's own figural reading, marked novel, and Maclaren's fixed purpose stamped on the face is his reconstruction rather than Mark's report.

6. Voices. Several entries in this brief are cross-references rather than fresh comment: Barnes, Poole and Henry all refer the reader to Matthew 20:17-19, and Henry's note covers Mark 10:32-45 as one block. Maclaren's exposition is capped in the brief; only its opening portrait is quoted here, and its later argument about the heroic Christ is not relied upon.

✦ = human, public-domain source, quoted and named. ⚙ = machine synthesis, to be verified. Flagged cross-references are left visible on purpose — the verifier working in the open. “Search the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.” (Acts 17:11)