Luke 9:45

The disciples do not understand this saying, and it is concealed from them; they are afraid to ask. Their spiritual dullness keeps them from grasping the cross.

Cross-references · 13

• Luke 18:34They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn’t understand the things that were said.
• Luke 2:50They didn’t understand the saying which he spoke to them.
• John 12:16His 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.
• Mark 9:32But they didn’t understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.
• Mark 9:10They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the “rising from the dead” meant.
• 2 Cor 3:14–16But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.
• John 16:17–18Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;’ and, ‘Because I go to the Father’?”
• Mark 8:16–18They reasoned with one another, saying, “It’s because we have no bread.”
• Mark 8:32–33He spoke to them openly. Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.
• Matt 16:22Peter took him aside, and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you.”
• John 14:5Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?”
• John 12:34The multitude answered him, “We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up?’ Who is this Son of Man?”
• Luke 9:46There arose an argument among them about which of them was the greatest.

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