Three times in Mark 8–10 Jesus predicts his death, the disciples fail to understand or to respond appropriately, and he then teaches them about discipleship. |Announcement of Jesus’ Death|Failure on the Part of the Disciples|Jesus Teaches on Discipleship| |---|---|---| |Jesus will suffer, be rejected, killed, and will rise after three days (8:31)|Peter rebukes Jesus (8:32–33)|Jesus commands them to deny themselves, take up their cross, and follow him (8:33–9:1)| |Jesus will be delivered, killed, and will rise after three days (9:30–31)|The disciples do not understand the saying and are afraid to ask him about it (9:32)|Jesus teaches that the first must be last and that those who receive children in his name receive him (9:33–50)| |Jesus will be delivered, condemned, mocked, flogged, killed, and will rise after three days (10:33–34)|James and John ask that they may sit next to Jesus in his glory (10:35–37)|Jesus teaches that, to be great, they must become servants; to be first, they must become slaves; and that he came to serve by giving his life as a ransom for many (10:38–45)|