Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
Ought not Christ [ edei (G1210 ) pathein (G3958 ) ton (G3588 ) Christon (G5547 )] to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? - `Behoved it not the Messiah to suffer these things, and to enter into His glory;' that is, Was it not necessary to the fulfillment of the Scriptures that the predicted Messiah should, through the gate of these very sufferings, enter into His glory? It is doubtless to these words that the apostle Peter alludes, when he speaks of the Spirit of Christ who testified in the prophets 'the sufferings that were to light upon Messiah and the following glories' х promarturomenon (G4303) ta (G3588) eis (G1519) Christon (G5547) patheemata (G3804) kai (G2532) tas (G3588) meta (G3326) tauta (G5023) doxas (G1391)], 1 Peter 1:11. 'Ye have had your eye fixed so exclusively on the "glories" (says our Lord), that ye have overlooked the "sufferings" which the prophets told you were to go before and pave the way for them.'