CCC 557 “When the days drew near for him to be taken up [Jesus] set his face to go to Jerusalem.”1 By this decision he indicated that he was going up to Jerusalem prepared to die there. Three times he had announced his Passion and Resurrection; now, heading toward Jerusalem, Jesus says: “It cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.”2
1 Lk 9:51; cf. Jn 13:1.
2 Lk 13:33; cf. Mk 8:31-33; 9:31-32; 10:32-34.