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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 24:26

“Did it not behove the Christ (the Messiah) to suffer these things, and to enter into his glory?”

For was it not right and fitting, indeed  necessary, that the Messiah should suffer these things (compare Acts 3:18), thereby entering into His glory? Was that not what the Scriptures had said?

The thought of glory may refer mainly to His crucifixion as the way of entering into His glory (see John 12:23), but if it was so it could only be in the light of the certainty of His resurrection. However, Daniel 7:13 and its use by Jesus (Luke 22:69; Matthew 16:28; Matthew 26:64) suggests that both are included, and that it also includes the idea of His enthronement. The Son of Man will suffer (along with His people - Daniel 7:25 with 27), but then He will come to the throne of God to receive glory (Daniel 7:13).

This idea of ‘necessity' appears constantly throughout Luke. See Luke 2:49 - it was necessary for Him to be in His Father's house; Luke 4:43 - it was necessary for Him to preach the Good News of the Kingly Rule of God widely; Luke 9:22 - it was necessary for the Son of Man to suffer many things, and be rejected by the Jewish leaders, and be killed, and on the third day be raised; Luke 13:16 - it was necessary for a woman bound by Satan to be freed; Luke 13:33 - it was necessary for Him as a prophet to go up to Jerusalem to die; Luke 15:32 - it was necessary that they should be glad when a lost one was found; Luke 18:1 - it was necessary for His disciples always to pray and not to lose heart; Luke 19:5 - it was necessary for Him to stay at the house of Zacchaeus; Luke 21:9 - it is necessary for judgments to take place throughout history; Luke 22:37 - it was necessary that the Scripture be fulfilled that He was reckoned among the transgressors; Luke 24:7 - it was necessary for the Son of Man to be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified and on the third day rise again (compare Luke 9:22); Luke 24:44 - it was necessary for everything written about Him in the Scriptures to be fulfilled. Jesus was driven along by the divine necessity.

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