Luke 18:34. And they understood none of these things. Peculiar to Luke; Matthew and Mark, however, give a proof of the same fact in their account of the request of the sons of Zebedee immediately after (Matthew 20:20-28; Mark 10:35-45). They understood the words, but what was predicted they did not understand.

Hid from them. The cause of their not understanding was this hiding, which was due to their own dullness of spiritual perception, though in another view God's agency is implied. Their spiritual blindness is emphasized by the connection with the healing of blind Bartimeus.

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