The Pulpit Commentary on Luke 9:45

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And they feared to ask him of that saying. The "saying" was to them so utterly distasteful, perhaps inconceivable. It is possible that they thought this betrayal and death simply veiled for them some bit of teaching to be explained hereafter; it is possible they at once dismissed it from their minds, as men often do painful and mournful forebodings.

At all events, they dreaded asking him any questions about this dark future of suffering which he said lay before him.

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