Lucas 9:45

45 Pero ellos no entendían estas palabras, y les estaban veladas para que no las comprendieran; y temían preguntarle acerca de ellas.

Lucas 9:45 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 9:45

But they understood not this saying
What was meant by being betrayed into the hands of men, and by his being put to death; they knew not, how these things could possibly be, for they could not by any means reconcile them with the notions they had of a temporal Redeemer, and victorious Messiah:

and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not;
the true meaning of this saying was hid from their understanding, which was veiled with the above notion of the worldly grandeur of the Messiah, that they did not take it in;

and they feared to ask him of that saying,
of the meaning of it; imagining that he had a secret mystical meaning in it, which they could not reach; lest he should reproach them with their dulness and stupidity; or should rebuke them with the like sharpness and severity he had reproved Peter not long ago, upon the same head.

Lucas 9:45 In-Context

43 Y todos estaban admirados de la grandeza de Dios. Mientras todos se maravillaban de todas las cosas que hacía, Jesús dijo a sus discípulos:

44 Haced que estas palabras penetren en vuestros oídos, porque el Hijo del Hombre va a ser entregado en manos de los hombres.

45 Pero ellos no entendían estas palabras, y les estaban veladas para que no las comprendieran; y temían preguntarle acerca de ellas.

46 Y se suscitó una discusión entre ellos, sobre quién de ellos sería el mayor.

47 Entonces Jesús, sabiendo lo que pensaban en sus corazones, tomó a un niño y lo puso a su lado,