Lucas 9:45

45 Pero ellos no entendían lo que quería decir con esto. Les estaba encubierto para que no lo comprendieran, y no se atrevían a preguntárselo.

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 se quedaron asombrados de la grandeza de Dios.En medio de tanta admiración por todo lo que hacía, Jesús dijo a sus discípulos:

44 —Presten mucha atención a lo que les voy a decir: El Hijo del hombre va a ser entregado en manos de los hombres.

45 Pero ellos no entendían lo que quería decir con esto. Les estaba encubierto para que no lo comprendieran, y no se atrevían a preguntárselo.

46 Surgió entre los discípulos una discusión sobre quién de ellos sería el más importante.

47 Como Jesús sabía bien lo que pensaban, tomó a un niño y lo puso a su lado.