Jesus predicts his death

Scholars note that this Gospel also contains verses in which Jesus appears to predict his Passion and suggest that these represent the earlier traditions available to the author.

Jesus tells his followers that "the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again".

In the conversation with Nicodemus in the Gospel of John, Jesus pointed Nicodemus towards his death when he said Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up[14]Jesus was intimating that something similar would happen to him as in Numbers 21:4-9,[15] where Moses raised a bronze statue of a serpent up on a pole.

The concordances are summarized in the following table: As shown in the Daily Mass Readings provided in the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church,[19] the prediction given by Jesus in Mark 9:32 has one of its main references in the Wisdom of Solomon:[20] 12 Therefore let us lie in wait for the righteous; because he is not for our turn, and he is clean contrary to our doings: he upbraideth us with our offending the law, and objecteth to our infamy the transgressings of our education.

Let us condemn him with a shameful death: for by his own saying he shall be respected.The gospels report Jesus making predictions about the "Son of Man".

[22] Jesus predicted that the Son of Man would be handed over/betrayed to the elders, the chief priests, the scribes, and the teachers of the law.

[28] Judaism does not allow crucifixion as a means of punishment,[29] but Ancient Roman law did allow certain persons, such as slaves and pirates, to be crucified.