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44 Let these sayings sink into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered up into the hands of men.
b and they shall kill him; and when he is killed, after three days he shall rise again. {a and the third day he shall be raised up.} [For comment on similar language see Section 49.] And they were exceeding sorry. [Peter's experience taught them not to attempt to correct Jesus while thus speaking, so there was nothing left for them but to grieve at his words.]
c 45 But they understood not this {b the} saying, c and it was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it [What was told to them was not for their present but their future benefit, and therefore they were left to puzzle over the words of Jesus]; and they were afraid to ask him about this saying. [Not so much from any awe with which they regarded him, as from the delicacy of the subject itself, and their own sorrow, which shrank from knowing it more fully.]