And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you. Mark this last expression - "while I was yet with you" - that is, in the days of His flesh. Now, He was as good as removed from them; His life being a new one, the atmosphere He breathed no longer that of this lower world, and His proper home, even for their interests, His Father's house. But 'now ye will understand what I said to you, once and again, to your so great surprise and distress, about the Son of man requiring to be put to death and to rise again.
That all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms - the three current Jewish divisions of the Old Testament Scriptures, "concerning me."