And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.
All Commentaries on Matthew 20:19 Go To Matthew 20
John Chrysostom
AD 407
Yet none of these things made them take courage, and this when they were continually hearing about His resurrection. For together with His death this also especially troubled them, to hear that men should mock and scourge Him, and the like. For when they considered His miracles, the possessed persons whom He had delivered, the dead whom He had raised, all the other marvellous works which He was doing, and then heard these things, they were amazed, if He who does these works is thus to suffer. Therefore they fell even into perplexity, and now believed, now disbelieved, and could not understand His sayings.
