God’s Word Translation
Mark 9:32
32The disciples didn’t understand what he meant and were afraid to ask him.
Mark 9:32 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him.
- New International Version (NIV)But they did not understand what he meant and were afraid to ask him about it.
- English Standard Version (ESV)But they did not understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.
- New King James Version (NKJV)But they did not understand this saying, and were afraid to ask Him.
Context of Mark 9:32
30They left that place and were passing through Galilee. Jesus did not want anyone to know where he was 31because he was teaching his disciples. He taught them, “The Son of Man will be betrayed and handed over to people. They will kill him, but on the third day he will come back to life.” The disciples didn’t understand what he meant and were afraid to ask him. 33Then they came to Capernaum. While Jesus was at home, he asked the disciples, “What were you arguing about on the road?” 34They were silent. On the road they had argued about who was the greatest.
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οἱ δὲ ἠγνόουν τὸ ῥῆμα καὶ ἐφοβοῦντο αὐτὸν ἐπερωτῆσαι.¶Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Mark 9:32
- Mark 9:10They kept in mind what he said but argued among themselves what he meant by “come back to life.”
- Luke 2:50But they didn’t understand what he meant.
- Luke 9:45They didn’t know what he meant. The meaning was hidden from them so that they didn’t understand it. Besides, they were afraid to ask him about what he had said.
- Luke 18:34But they didn’t understand any of this. What he said was a mystery to them, and they didn’t know what he meant.
- Luke 24:45Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
- Mark 7:18Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand? Don’t you know that whatever goes into a person from the outside can’t make him unclean?
- Mark 8:17Jesus knew what they were saying and asked them, “Why are you discussing the fact that you don’t have any bread? Don’t you understand yet? Don’t you catch on? Are your minds closed?
- Mark 16:14Still later Jesus appeared to the eleven apostles while they were eating. He put them to shame for their unbelief and because they were too stubborn to believe those who had seen him alive.
- John 4:27At that time his disciples returned. They were surprised that he was talking to a woman. But none of them asked him, “What do you want from her?” or “Why are you talking to her?”
- John 16:19Jesus knew they wanted to ask him something. So he said to them, “Are you trying to figure out among yourselves what I meant when I said, ‘In a little while you won’t see me, and in a little while you will see me again’?
Commentaries on Mark 9:32
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 32But they understood not - This whole verse is wanting in two MSS., in the first edition of Erasmus, and in that of Aldus. Mill approves of the omission. It does not appear likely, from Matthew's account, that three of the disciples, Peter, James, and John, could be ignorant of the reasons of Christ's death and resurrection, after the transfiguration; on the contrary, from the circumstances there related, it is very probable that from that time they must…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 30-32Verses 30-32 See the notes at Matthew 17:22-23. Mark 9:31 Is delivered - Is given to men to make an atonement by his sufferings and death, and will in due time be taken and killed.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 30-40Verses 30-40 The time of Christ's suffering drew nigh. Had he been delivered into the hands of devils, and they had done this, it had not been so strange; but that men should thus shamefully treat the Son of man, who came to redeem and save them, is wonderful. Still observe that when Christ spake of his death, he always spake of his resurrection, which took the reproach of it from himself, and should have taken the grief of it from his disciples. Many…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 32The disciples were still unable to accept the teaching of Jesus concerning his death or to recognize how it fit into God’s plan.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3232. But they understood not that saying--"and it was hid from them, [so] that they preceived it not" (Lu 9:45). and were afraid to ask him--Their most cherished ideas were so completely dashed by such announcements, that they were afraid of laying themselves open to rebuke by asking Him any questions. But "they were exceeding sorry" (Mt 17:23). While the other Evangelists, as Webster and Wilkinson remark, notice their ignorance and their fear, Matthew…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Mark 9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Catena Aurea
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- John Lightfoot Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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