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The Gospel of Mark Chapter 10:1-52 Third Prediction of His Death and Resurrection 32 - 34 10.32. They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem. Jesus was going ahead of them, and they were amazed, but those who followed were afraid. He took the twelve aside again and began to tell them what was going to happen to him. The Lord commences His last journey up to Jerusalem. Our verse says "they were on the way" although this would seem to be insignificant when we apply it to Jesus only it reveals to us that in setting His face to go up to Jerusalem (Luke 9: 51) He was in fact walking the way that was in accordance with His Father's will and by so doing He would become "the way" of salvation. Jesus as the "good shepherd" was leading his disciples and they obediently followed him. We are told that they were amazed or more correctly bewildered and greatly astonished by the fact that He seemed to be heading for Jerusalem when He knew that the religious leaders were plotting to kill Him. It was like walking straight into the lion's den. They were greatly alarmed and afraid of the consequences of such action. This could not have been because they had remembered the Lord's two other predictions of what was going to happen to Him because they had failed to understand those and there would have been no need for Jesus to remind them again of it. Therefore they must have felt some vague sense of foreboding. Jesus knowing what they were feeling like takes them aside again and in more detail tells them what is going to happen. 10.33. "Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and experts in the law. They will condemn him to death and will turn him over to the Gentiles. “We are going up to Jerusalem�; there is a determination in these words. As far as the Lord was concerned there was no other way but that which lay ahead, no matter what the cost His Father's will must be done. This is the path that He leads all His disciples to follow and with the same determination that He had. We cannot do this in our on strength but "we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us" (Phil. 4: 13). He would be delivered up to the chief priest and the Sanhedrin and they would find Him guilty and condemn Him to death and hand Him over to the Romans (Math. 26: 57, 65 - 66).