Johannes 12:16

16 Doch dit verstonden Zijn discipelen in het eerst niet; maar als Jezus verheerlijkt was, toen werden zij indachtig, dat dit van Hem geschreven was, en dat zij Hem dit gedaan hadden.

Johannes 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

Johannes 12:16 In-Context

14 En Jezus vond een jongen ezel, en zat daarop, gelijk geschreven is:

15 Vrees niet, gij dochter Sions, zie, uw Koning komt, zittende op het veulen ener ezelin.

16 Doch dit verstonden Zijn discipelen in het eerst niet; maar als Jezus verheerlijkt was, toen werden zij indachtig, dat dit van Hem geschreven was, en dat zij Hem dit gedaan hadden.

17 De schare dan, die met Hem was, getuigde dat Hij Lazarus uit het graf geroepen, en hem uit de doden opgewekt had.

18 Daarom ging ook de schare Hem tegemoet, overmits zij gehoord had, dat Hij dat teken gedaan had.