Matthew 17:22

22. While they abode in Galilee The miracle and conversation of the last paragraph plainly took place not far from the mount of transfiguration, which was in the vicinity of Cesarea Philippi. Thence, according to Mark 9:30, they crossed over Gennesaret to Galilee, where the present scene transpired. Into the hands of men Though he was the Son of man, and the model of humanity, it was fatal for him to be betrayed into the hands of men. Our Lord first broached the subject of his death at the scene of the apostolic inauguration in Matthew 16:21. And (as in our comment on that passage we have noted) so unexpected a turn after delivering to them the kingdom, struck them with consternation. He now, after his transfiguration, reveals the same sad assurance. Matthew says they were exceeding sorry. Luke says that our Saviour told them, Let these sayings sink down into your ears, if not into their understandings; and he adds: They understood not this saying, and it was hid from them that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him.