My, how easily we forget.

Jesus told the disciples EXACTLY what was about to happen to him. And yet, they either forgot His words, thought He was lying or that He meant well but lacked the power to follow through. Actually, Mark 9:32 says that the disciples did not understand what Jesus was saying. But how could it be any clearer?

for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, "The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, after three days he will rise.". Mark 9:31

And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. Mark 8:31

And as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them, "See, we are going up to Jerusalem. And the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified, and he will be raised
on the third day.". Matthew 20:17-19

There was no formula then and there is none now. It's all Him. All we can do is believe.