Apostles: Fail to Comprehend the Nature and Mission of Jesus

The disciples went and woke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!” …

But Jesus did not answer a word. So His disciples came and urged Him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.”

Aware of their conversation, Jesus said, “You of little faith, why are you debating among yourselves about having no bread? …

From that time on Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and that He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.

Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him. “Far be it from You, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to You!”

When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?”

Then Jesus said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand any of the parables?

Then He climbed into the boat with them, and the wind died down. And the disciples were utterly astounded,

…for they had not understood about the loaves, but their hearts had been hardened.

Aware of their conversation, Jesus asked them, “Why are you debating about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Do you have such hard hearts?

‘Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear?’ And do you not remember?

As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus admonished them not to tell anyone what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

So they kept this matter to themselves, discussing what it meant to rise from the dead.

…because He was teaching His disciples. He told them, “The Son of Man will be delivered into the hands of men. They will kill Him, and after three days He will rise.”

But they did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask Him about it.

Now people were bringing the little children to Jesus for Him to place His hands on them, and the disciples rebuked those who brought them.

But when Jesus saw this, He was indignant and told them, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them! For the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

“Let these words sink into your ears: The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.”

But they did not understand this statement. It was veiled from them so that they could not comprehend it, and they were afraid to ask Him about it.

But the disciples did not understand any of these things. The meaning was hidden from them, and they did not comprehend what He was saying.

“What things?” He asked. “The events involving Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered. “This man was a prophet, powerful in speech and action before God and all the people.

But we were hoping He was the One who would redeem Israel. And besides all this, it is the third day since these things took place.

But He told them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”

So the disciples asked one another, “Could someone have brought Him food?”

Jesus spoke to them using this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.

His disciples replied, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will get better.”

They thought that Jesus was talking about actual sleep, but He was speaking about the death of Lazarus.

At first His disciples did not understand these things, but after Jesus was glorified they remembered what had been done to Him, and they realized that these very things had also been written about Him.

He came to Simon Peter, who asked Him, “Lord, are You going to wash my feet?” …

“Lord,” said Thomas, “we do not know where You are going, so how can we know the way?” …

Judas (not Iscariot) asked Him, “Lord, why are You going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?”

Instead, your hearts are filled with sorrow because I have told you these things.

Then some of His disciples asked one another, “Why is He telling us, ‘In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”

They kept asking, “Why is He saying, ‘a little while’? We do not understand what He is saying.”

“Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

For they still did not understand from the Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.

“Come, have breakfast,” Jesus said to them. None of the disciples dared to ask Him, “Who are You?” They knew it was the Lord.

So when they came together, they asked Him, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”