God knoweth your hearts (Luke 16:15), that is, He, Jesus, knew their hearts, and their thoughts, and their vain desires, and their intention to kill Him.

He foretells His suffering, death, and resurrection almost at the beginning of His ministry. In a secret conversation with Nicodemus, He speaks of His sufferings on the Cross as follows: "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up (to the Cross), that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life" (John 3:14-15).

He foretold His three-day stay in the tomb and His resurrection when the scribes and Pharisees demanded some sign from Him. Then He answered these hypocrites with these prophetic words: "A wicked and adulterous generation seeks a sign; and no sign shall be given him, except the sign of Jonah the prophet; for as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights (Matt. 12:39-40).

And on another occasion, when these accursed eyewitnesses of Christ's innumerable miracles demanded some special sign, He again repeats to them the parable of Jonah as an image of His three-day death and resurrection (cf. Matt. 16:1-4).

He told His disciples many times that He would suffer from the elders and priestly leaders, that they would kill Him, and that He would rise again on the third day. All this is said by Him many times.

And it came to pass, as they passed through Galilee, that Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him, and on the third day he shall rise again. And they were very sad.

And again on another occasion He said to them, that the Jews would deliver Him up to the Gentiles, and mock Him, and insult Him, and spit on Him, and beat Him, and kill Him: and on the third day He will rise again. But the Apostles understood none of this (Luke 18:32-33, 34).

Thus He used to speak to them after some of His glorious deeds, after the Transfiguration or after some miraculous healing, so that this would serve as a lesson for us, so that we would not be proud and boasting, but would think about the last hour. But the feeble nature of man hardly accepts even such amazing and clear lessons. One day, when He was speaking to His disciples about His impending sufferings and death, the thought came to them: which of them would be greater? (cf. Luke 9:46). And He spoke to them on purpose about His sufferings and death, always after some kind of His glory, in order to teach them humility and humiliation and the fear of God. Oh, God, how weak they were, who stood so close to the Source of universal and heavenly glory!

He sees the past of people and knows their fates. He said to the paralytic in Bethesda, after He had healed him: "Behold, you are healed; sin no more, lest something worse happen to you. It is clear from this that the Lord saw into the past life of the paralytic patient and learned the cause of his illness. And the reason was his sin. Wherefore he saith unto him, Sin no more.

He sees into the past of a young man born blind. His apostles, seeing with Him this blind beggar in front of the luxurious temple of Solomon, asked Him: "Rabbi! Who sinned, he or his parents, that he was born blind? To the great amazement of the disciples, Jesus answered, "Neither he nor his parents have sinned, but this is so that the works of God may be manifested in him, that is, that He, as the Messiah and Savior of the world, may open his eyes, which is what happened.

Penetrating with His clairvoyant mind into the distant horizons of the past, He says to the Jews about the forefather Abraham: Abraham your father was glad to see My day; and he saw and rejoiced (John 8:56). This is a mystery that is incomprehensible to us.

He prophesied to the Apostles: "All of you will be offended in Me this night, that is, all will flee for their lives, and they will leave Him alone, which came to pass."

To Peter He prophesied: Verily I say unto thee, that this night, before the crows, thou shalt deny Me three times. This came true, despite Peter's assurances that he would not deny Him.

He knew from the beginning that Judas would betray Him. Jesus knew from the beginning who the unbelievers were and who would betray Him (John 6:64). And again, on another occasion, St. John writes that Jesus knew the betrayer: "Have I not chosen you twelve? but one of you is the devil" (John 6:70). And again in another place: "He knew His betrayer" (John 13:11). And when they gathered together at the Supper, He said to the betrayer, "What you do, do quickly." It was as if the Lord was in a hurry to leave this life as soon as possible and go over to His Father. But none of those who sat at table understood why He had said this to him.