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Luke 18:34

Luke 18:34 is verse 34 of Luke chapter 18, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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.

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King James Version

And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.

World English Bible

They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn’t understand the things that were said.

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Luke 18:32–36 · Berean Standard Bible

32 He will be delivered over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and insulted and spit upon.

33 They will flog Him and kill Him, and on the third day He will rise again.”

34 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.

35 As Jesus drew near to Jericho, a blind man was sitting beside the road, begging.

36 When he heard the crowd going by, he asked what was happening.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Luke 2:50

But they did not understand the statement He was making to them.

Luke 9:45

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.

Luke 24:25

Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, how slow are your hearts to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

Luke 24:45

Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.

Mark 9:32

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

John 10:6

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

John 12:16

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.

John 16:1

“I have told you these things so that you will not fall away.

John 16:2

They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.

John 16:3

They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.

John 16:4

But I have told you these things so that when their hour comes, you will remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

John 16:5

Now, however, I am going to Him who sent Me; yet none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’

John 16:6

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

John 16:7

But I tell you the truth, it is for your benefit that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.

John 16:8

And when He comes, He will convict the world in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment:

John 16:9

in regard to sin, because they do not believe in Me;

John 16:10

in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see Me;

John 16:11

and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world has been condemned.

John 16:12

I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it.

John 16:13

However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.

John 16:14

He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.

John 16:15

Everything that belongs to the Father is Mine. That is why I said that the Spirit will take from what is Mine and disclose it to you.

John 16:16

In a little while you will see Me no more, and then after a little while you will see Me.”

John 16:17

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’?”

John 16:18

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

John 16:19

Aware that they wanted to question Him, Jesus said to them, “Are you asking one another why I said, ‘In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me’?

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