Luca 18:34

34 Ed essi non capirono nulla di queste cose; quel parlare era per loro oscuro, e non intendevano le cose dette loro.

Luca 18:34 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 18:34

And they understood none of these things
"Not one of them", as the Syriac and Persic versions render it; every article of his sufferings and death were unintelligible by them; they knew not how to understand him in any one point: or how to reconcile these things to the notions they had entertained of the temporal grandeur, and glory, of the Messiah, and his kingdom; and which shows their great ignorance of the prophecies of the Old Testament concerning these things.

And this saying,
or "thing"; for it answers to the Hebrew word (rbd) , which signifies any affair, or matter, as well as a word, or saying: and so here, the whole of this affair

was hid from them;
unless it should have a peculiar regard to that part of it, which expresses his resurrection from the dead; see ( Mark 9:10 ) or the delivery of him to the Gentiles, ( Luke 9:44 Luke 9:45 )

neither knew they the things which were spoken;
the meaning of them. The Ethiopic version leaves out this, and puts the former clause, by way of question, "and he said unto them, and is this saying hid from you?"

Luca 18:34 In-Context

32 poiché egli sarà dato in man de’ Gentili, e sarà schernito ed oltraggiato e gli sputeranno addosso;

33 e dopo averlo flagellato, l’uccideranno; ma il terzo giorno risusciterà.

34 Ed essi non capirono nulla di queste cose; quel parlare era per loro oscuro, e non intendevano le cose dette loro.

35 Or avvenne che com’egli si avvicinava a Gerico, un certo cieco sedeva presso la strada, mendicando;

36 e, udendo la folla che passava, domandò che cosa fosse.