Jean 12:16

16 Ses disciples ne comprirent pas cela d'abord; mais quand Jésus fut glorifié, alors ils se souvinrent que ces choses avaient été écrites de lui, et qu'elles lui étaient arrivées.

Jean 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

Jean 12:16 In-Context

14 Et Jésus ayant trouvé un ânon, y monta dessus, selon qu'il est écrit:

15 Ne crains point, fille de Sion; voici, ton roi vient, monté sur le poulain d'une ânesse.

16 Ses disciples ne comprirent pas cela d'abord; mais quand Jésus fut glorifié, alors ils se souvinrent que ces choses avaient été écrites de lui, et qu'elles lui étaient arrivées.

17 Et la troupe qui était avec lui quand il avait appelé Lazare du sépulcre, et qu'il l'avait ressuscité des morts, lui rendait témoignage.

18 Et c'est aussi parce que le peuple avait appris qu'il avait fait ce miracle, qu'il était allé au-devant de lui.