Jesus knew what was ahead for the disciples. He wanted them to be prepared for what they would experience. To me, it seems like the time in Jesus voice might have been live and concern, pleading with them to be ready for what was about to happen. The disciples may have been naive and ill prepared to understand, just as I am much if the time. You and I are in a relationship with the God of the universe who is trying to prepare us for His kingdom. If you’re like me, I minimize what He is doing and saying directly in my here and now moments.
“I want the God who initiates life and relationship with me even when I’m not asking. I want the God who loved me even when I was his enemy. I want the God who says to David, “Hey, let me teach you how to fight in a new way, because one day, about ten years from now, you’re going to really need it. You don’t know it yet, you’re not going to trust me yet, but you will. Trust me now in the small, seemingly unimportant things. Learn to do what I say. Throw a rock at that lion. Do it. Trust me, because one day it’s going to make you king. You can do this, trust me.” - Jamie Winship, Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God
“Jesus took the twelve aside and spoke to them in private. He again described what was going to happen to him in Jerusalem. “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death; then they will hand him over to the Gentiles; they will mock him, and spit upon him, and flog him, and kill him; and after three days he will rise again” (Mark 10:33–34).” - Excerpt , Following Jesus: Discipleship in the Gospel of Mark by Steve Langford
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