Christ here foretels his own sufferings; he began to do it before (Matt. 16:21); and, finding that it was to his disciples a hard saying, he saw it necessary to repeat it. There are some things which God speaketh once, yea twice, and yet man perceiveth it not . Observe here, 1. What he foretold concerning himself—that he should be betrayed and killed. He perfectly knew, before, all things that sho...