Giovanni 12:16

16 Or i suoi discepoli non intesero da prima queste cose; ma, quando Gesù fu glorificato, allora si ricordarono che queste cose erano scritte di lui, e ch’essi gli avean fatte queste cose.

Giovanni 12:16 Meaning and Commentary

John 12:16

These things understood not his disciples at the first,
&c.] Or "at that time", as the Syriac and Persic versions render it; or "on that day", as the Ethiopic version; they did not then know the sense of that prophecy, nor that the things which were now doing were a fulfilling of it:

but when Jesus was glorified;
was raised front the dead, and ascended to heaven, and was set down at the right hand of God, crowned with glory and honour; and when having received the promise of the Father, the Holy Ghost, and his gifts, he poured them forth in a very plenteous and extraordinary manner upon them; whereby their minds were greatly illuminated, and they had a very distinct knowledge of the Scriptures of the Old Testament; and saw clearly how they severally had their accomplishment in Christ:

then remembered they that these things were written of him;
in the prophecies of the Old Testament;

and [that] they had done these things unto him;
both the disciples and the multitude, or that these things were done to him; such as bringing the ass to him, laying their clothes on it, and setting him upon it, attending him with shoutings and hosannas to the city of Jerusalem

Giovanni 12:16 In-Context

14 E Gesù, trovato un asinello, vi montò su, secondo ch’egli è scritto:

15 Non temere, o figliuola di Sion; ecco, il tuo Re viene, montato sopra un puledro d’asina.

16 Or i suoi discepoli non intesero da prima queste cose; ma, quando Gesù fu glorificato, allora si ricordarono che queste cose erano scritte di lui, e ch’essi gli avean fatte queste cose.

17 La moltitudine adunque ch’era con lui testimoniava ch’egli avea chiamato Lazaro fuori del monumento, e l’avea suscitato da’ morti.

18 Perciò ancora la moltitudine gli andò incontro, perciocchè avea udito che egli avea fatto questo miracolo.