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Lukas 9:45

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45 Aber das Wort verstanden sie nicht, und es ward vor ihnen verborgen, daß sie es nicht begriffen. Und sie fürchteten sich, ihn zu fragen um dieses Wort.

Lukas 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.

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Lukas 9:45 In-Context

43 Und sie entsetzten sich alle über die Herrlichkeit Gottes. Da sie sich aber alle verwunderten über alles, was er tat, sprach er zu seinen Jüngern:
44 Fasset ihr zu euren Ohren diese Rede: Des Menschen Sohn muß überantwortet werden in der Menschen Hände.
45 Aber das Wort verstanden sie nicht, und es ward vor ihnen verborgen, daß sie es nicht begriffen. Und sie fürchteten sich, ihn zu fragen um dieses Wort.
46 Es kam auch ein Gedanke unter sie, welcher unter ihnen der Größte wäre.
47 Da aber Jesus den Gedanken ihres Herzens sah, ergriff er ein Kind und stellte es neben sich
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