34And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.
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But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.
But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him.
And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.
These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.
This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 31-34)Here is, I. The notice Christ gave to his disciples of his sufferings and death approaching, and of the glorious issue of them, which he himself had a perfect sight and foreknowledge of, and thought it necessary to give them warning of, that it might be the less surprise and terror to them. Two things here are which we had not in the other evangelists:—1. The sufferings of Christ are here spoken o…
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