Suffering before glory?

Nighttime gives way to sunrise.
Luke, as early as chapter 9, just before the Transfiguration, has Jesus warn his followers, "The Son of Man is destined to suffer grievously, to be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes and to  be put to death, and to be raised up on the third day."  Several more times Jesus predicts this, including very specifically just as they are starting up from Galilee to Jerusalem (18:31-34.)
Then three times after the Resurrection in chapter 24 Jesus repeats this teaching. To the women puzzling over the empty tomb the two shining young men announce,"Remember what he told you while he was still in Galilee: that the Son of Man was destined to be handed over into the power of sinful men and  be crucified, and  rise again on the third day."  Luke adds that the women did  remember those words of Jesus.
To the two confused and hopeless disciples on the way to Emmaus the unrecognized Risen Christ says, "Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer before entering into his glory?"
Meditating on the necessity of suffering before glory can be rewarding in this time of the virus.

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