31 ^tAnd taking the twelve, he said to them, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is ^uwritten about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished. 32 For he will be delivered over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and shamefully treated and spit upon. 33 And after flogging him, they will kill him, and on the ^vthird day he will rise.” 34 But they understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they ^wdid not grasp what was said.