Jerome, on Matt 20:17

“And Jesus going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples apart, and said to them:”

“He had often told His disciples of His passion, but because it might have slipped out of their recollection by reason of the many things they had heard in the mean while, now when He is going to Jerusalem, and going to take His disciples with Him, He fortifies them against the trial, that they should not be scandalized when the persecution and shame of the Cross should come.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.