Mark 14:50 CSB – Then they all deserted him and ran away. 

Luke 24:21 CSB – “…we were hoping that he was the one who was about to redeem Israel.

Galatians 6:14 CSB – ….I will never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 1:16 CSB – For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes

1 Corinthians 1:18 CSB – For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is the power of God to us who are being saved.

2 Corinthians 2:14-16 CSB – But thanks be to God, who always leads us in Christ’s triumphal procession and through us spreads the aroma of the knowledge of him in every place.

For to God we are the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. 16 To some we are an aroma of death

2 Timothy 1:7 CSB – For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but one of power, love, and sound judgment.

Matthew 26:56 CSB – Then all the disciples deserted him and ran away.

When the Disciples See the Cross as a Curse, The Cross Discouraged

Matthew 16:21 CSB – From then on Jesus began to point out to his disciples that it was necessary for him to go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, be killed, and be raised the third day.

Matthew 26:40-41 CSB – He asked Peter, “So, couldn’t you stay awake with me one hour? 41 Stay awake and pray, so that you won’t enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Matthew 16:21-22 CSB – 

From then on Jesus began to point out to his disciples that it was necessary for him to go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, be killed, and be raised the third day.

22 Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, “Oh no, Lord! This will never happen to you!”

Jesus says, “I’m going to be killed and resurrected,”

Peter says, “No Lord.  Never! You’re going to be king! You can’t be killed!”

Jesus says, That’s Satan talking.

Luke 9:44, 46 CSB – He told his disciples, 44 “Let these words sink in: The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men.”

An argument started among them about who was the greatest of them

Matthew 16:24 CSB – “If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

Daniel 3:17-18 CSB – If the God we serve exists, then he can rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire, and he can rescue us from the power of you, the king. 18 But even if he does not rescue us, we want you as king to know that we will not serve your gods…

Romans 14:8 CSB – If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

Galatians 2:20 CSB – I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Galatians 6:14 CSB – But as for me, I will never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. The world has been crucified to me through the cross, and I to the world.

Matthew 16:24-25 CSB – Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. 25 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will find it.