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Suffering and Christ

Similarly, the idea here is of the sufferings and glories that belong to Christ. Further, the idea that Christ would suffer and then enter glory is a common feature of New Testament preaching (cf. Acts 2:14–36; 3:11–26; 13:16–41). Note, for example, “Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” (Luke 24:26); “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day” (Luke 24:46); “I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen—that the Christ would suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to his own people and to the Gentiles” (Acts 26:22–23). Fifth, the phrase “have now been told you” in 1 Pet 1:12 indicates that the prophets belonged to a former era, one in which they did not grasp fully the things “now” revealed to believers.

Schreiner, T. R. (2003). 1, 2 Peter, Jude (Vol. 37, pp. 72–73). Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers.