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Matthew 17:23 (WEB)
and they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised up.” They were exceedingly sorry.

Catechism · 1

§554Paragraph 3 · The Mysteries of Christ's LifeRead at vatican.va
“Peter scorns this prediction, nor do the others understand it any better than he.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 16:22-23; 17:23; Lk 9:45.

Augustine of Hippo, Harmony of the Gospels II.61Book II
“He saith, Yes;” and so on, down to where we read: “Thou shall find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.”” — editor's note: Matt. xvii. 23–27.
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John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew Homily 30
“Because for themselves already to have this said to them, would have been grievous and galling, since we know that afterwards, being uttered, it troubled them;but spoken to others, it would become rather less intolerable to them.” — editor's note: Matt. xvi. 22, xvii. 23.
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John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew Homily 55
“And after a little while again, when He had cast out the devil, which His disciples were not able to cast out; for then too, “As they abode in Galilee,” so it saith, “Jesus said unto them, The Son of Man shall be betrayed into the hands of sinfulmen, and they shall kill Him, and the third day He shall rise again.”” — editor's note: Matt. xvii. 23.
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Remigius of AuxerreCatena Aurea on Matthew
The Lord often foretold to His disciples the mysteries of His passion, in order that when they come to pass, they might be the lighter to them from having been known beforehand.
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OrigenCatena Aurea on Matthew
This seems to be so like a warning He had given above, that a man might easily say that the Lord now repeated what He had said before; yet is it not so; He had not before said that He must be betrayed, but we hear…
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JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
Thus does He ever mix the joyful and the grievous; if it grieves them that He is to be put to death, they ought to be gladdened when they hear, “And shall rise again, the third day.”
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John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
For this is no long time that He speaks of continuing in death, when He says that He shall rise again on the third day.
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OrigenCatena Aurea on Matthew
By this announcement of the Lord the disciples were made very sorrowful, not attending to that He said, “And shall rise again the third day,” nor considering what He must be to whom the space of three days was enough…
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JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
That they were thus made exceeding sorrowful, came not of their lack of faith; but out of their love of their Master they could not endure to hear of any hurt or indignity for Him.
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