Luke 17:25 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) But first He must experience much suffering and be rejected by the people of this generation. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But first He must suffer many things and be disapproved and repudiated and rejected by this age and generation. American Standard Version (1901) But first must he suffer many things and be rejected of this generation. Common English Bible However, first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. Catholic Public Domain Version But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But first he must suffer many things, and be rejected by this generation. |
From that time onward Jesus began to explain to His disciples that He would have to go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the [Jewish] elders, leading priests, and experts in the Law of Moses; [that He would then] be killed and [yet] raised up on the third day.
Jesus [then] said to the leading priests and elders of the Jewish people, “Did you not ever read in the Scriptures [Psa. 118:22-23], ‘The building block rejected by the builders is the same one that was made the principal stone by which the entire building was aligned. This was planned by the Lord and is a marvelous thing to us’?
He said, “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem and the Son of man will be turned over to the leading priests and experts in the Law of Moses. They will condemn Him to death and turn Him over to the [unconverted] Gentiles.
Have you never read this Scripture [Psa. 118:22- 23], ‘The building block rejected by the builders is the same [one] that was made the principal stone by which the entire building was aligned.
Jesus then began teaching them that the Son of man must suffer very much, be rejected by the [Jewish] elders, leading priests, and experts in the Law of Moses and be killed, but rise again [from the dead] after three days.
For He taught His disciples, saying to them, “The Son of man will be handed over to [evil] men and they will kill Him, and three days after He dies He will rise up again.”
Then Jesus took the twelve apostles with Him, saying to them, “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem and [while there] everything written in [the writings of] the prophets will be fulfilled concerning the Son of man.
[The Romans] will flog Him and kill Him, but on the third day He will rise again [from the dead].”
And He said to them, “This is what was written: The Christ [i.e., God’s specially chosen one] will suffer, and [then] rise again from the dead on the third day.
saying, “The Son of man must suffer many things and be rejected by the [Jewish] elders, leading priests and experts in the Law of Moses. Then He will be killed and [yet] be raised up on the third day.”
[Then] He came to His own [world, while on earth], but His own [people, the Israelites] did not welcome Him.
This was so that these words, which Isaiah the prophet had spoken, would be fulfilled [Isa. 53:1], “Lord, who has believed our message? And who has the Lord’s power been shown to?”