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Did the disciples understand when Jesus told them about his coming death?
Matthew reports sorrow after the death prediction, while Luke explicitly reports failure to understand it.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Supporting
- A supporting event, teaching, or biographical claim.
Grieving over a prediction does not establish the complete understanding that Luke denies.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Matthew describes the disciples grieving over Jesus' prediction
And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men: And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again. And they were exceeding sorry.
Matthew 17:22-23
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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Luke says the disciples did not understand the prediction
And they departed thence, and passed through Galilee; and he would not that any man should know it. For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day.
Mark 9:30-31
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)