Mark 9:32

World English Bible (2000)

But they didn't understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

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  • Luke 2:50 : 50 They didn't understand the saying which he spoke to them.
  • Luke 18:34 : 34 They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn't understand the things that were said.
  • Luke 9:45 : 45 But they didn't understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.
  • Mark 9:10 : 10 They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the "rising from the dead" meant.
  • John 12:16 : 16 His disciples didn't understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.
  • John 16:19 : 19 Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, "Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?'
  • Mark 16:14 : 14 Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn't believe those who had seen him after he had risen.
  • Mark 7:18 : 18 He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Don't you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can't defile him,
  • Mark 8:17-18 : 17 Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, "Why do you reason that it's because you have no bread? Don't you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened? 18 Having eyes, don't you see? Having ears, don't you hear? Don't you remember?
  • Mark 8:33 : 33 But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men."
  • Luke 24:45 : 45 Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.
  • John 4:27 : 27 At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you looking for?" or, "Why do you speak with her?"

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    44"Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men."

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  • Luke 18:34
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    34They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn't understand the things that were said.

  • Luke 2:50
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    50They didn't understand the saying which he spoke to them.

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    6For he didn't know what to say, for they were very afraid.

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    79%

    21He asked them, "Don't you understand, yet?"

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    6Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn't understand what he was telling them.

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    9As they were coming down from the mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

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    27They didn't understand that he spoke to them about the Father.

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    30They went out from there, and passed through Galilee. He didn't want anyone to know it.

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    30He commanded them that they should tell no one about him.

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  • Luke 9:21
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    21But he warned them, and commanded them to tell this to no one,

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