NT References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

Matthew 16:21

Dialogue of Justin

Hence, also, among His words He said, when He was discoursing about His future sufferings: `The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the Pharisees and Scribes, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.'[382]

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III "For from that time forth," it is said, "He began to show to His disciples, how that He must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the priests, and be rejected, and crucified, and rise again the third day."[341]

Pseudo-Gregory Thaumaturgus Twelve Topics on the Faith

How could it be said that He who suffered is one, and He who suffered not another, when the Lord Himself says, "The Son of man must suffer many things, and be killed, and be raised again the third day from the dead; "[13]

Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes

This he said after Jesus had announced to him that the Son of man must go up to Jerusalem, and be killed, and rise again the third day.[589]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

this, so to speak, to be digested in the minds of the hearers, that, after there had been a period of silence in the proclamation of something of this kind about Him, at a more seasonable time there might be built up upon the former rudiments "Christ Jesus crucified and raised from the dead," which at the beginning not even the Apostles knew; for it is written in the passage now under consideration, "From that time began Jesus to show unto His disciples that He must go unto Jerusalem"[124]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

And that this was His meaning, when He forbade proclamation to be made that He was the Christ, is in a measure established by the words, "From that time began Jesus to show unto His disciples how that He must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders," and what is annexed;[127]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

Wherefore, reserving the more perfect proclamation of the things concerning Him by the Apostles, He commanded His disciples that they should tell no man that He was the Christ; and He prepared them to say that He was the Christ crucified and risen from the dead, "when He began "not only to say, nor even to advance to the point of teaching merely, but "to show"[132]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII "[133]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIII

And these things will appear to be of the same effect as those, "that Jesus began to show unto His disciples that He must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes."[59]

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