Lucas 9:45

45 Mas eles não entendiam o que isso significava; era-lhes encoberto, para que não o entendessem. E tinham receio de perguntar-lhe a respeito dessa palavra.

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 E todos ficaram atônitos ante a grandeza de Deus.Estando todos maravilhados com tudo o que Jesus fazia, ele disse aos seus discípulos:

44 “Ouçam atentamente o que vou dizer: O Filho do homem será traído e entregue nas mãos dos homens”.

45 Mas eles não entendiam o que isso significava; era-lhes encoberto, para que não o entendessem. E tinham receio de perguntar-lhe a respeito dessa palavra.

46 Começou uma discussão entre os discípulos acerca de qual deles seria o maior.

47 Jesus, conhecendo os seus pensamentos, tomou uma criança e a colocou em pé, a seu lado.