Luke 18:32 Meaning and Explanation

Each clause will come true to the letter. 'Delivered unto the Gentiles' — passed from his own leaders into Roman hands, the detail that points toward a Roman cross. The mocking, the abuse, the spitting: Luke records them all within five chapters, and Isaiah had written of the servant who hid not his face from shame and spitting.

Jesus names the humiliations in advance and still keeps walking toward them. There is no resignation here; there is resolve. The Son of man chooses, with open eyes, to absorb the worst that human contempt can do — so every disciple who has ever been mocked for his sake follows a Master who went first, and went lower.