Matthew 16:21 meaning and explanation
From that time on Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and that He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.
Matthew 16:21, Berean Standard Bible
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Jesus has just been confessed as the Christ by Peter at Caesarea Philippi, and now for the first time he speaks plainly about where that road leads. The word "must" carries the sense of divine necessity: the suffering, death and resurrection are not an accident but the purpose he has come to fulfill.
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