Haenchen calls this third announcement of Jesus’ suffering unhistorical, because the attitude of the disciples at the arrest and interrogation becomes incomprehensible if they had heard about it beforehand in so much detail.1 Here the power of unbelief remains unrestrained. How many people are there also today who ignore in unbelief much that in Scripture has been clearly foretold? The fact that all three evangelists mention the three announcements with a great deal of agreement cannot be explained if later on they were each adding (unhistorical) details to their story. It in fact shows how deeply these three announcements penetrated the disciples’ consciousness. And (though at first they ignored them) after Easter their hearts were opened, and then the memory speaks accurately and in the affirmative.2
33 Voici, nous montons à Jérusalem, et le Fils de l'homme sera livré aux principaux sacrificateurs et aux scribes. Ils le condamneront à mort, et ils le livreront aux païens,