But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.
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Gill's Exposition
And said unto them, whosoever shalt receive this child,.... Or "one such little child", as in Mat 18:5 and so the Syriac version here, "a child like to this"; and the Arabic version, "one like to this…
Barnes' Notes
It was hid from them - They had imbibed the common notions of the Jews that he was to be a prince and a conqueror, to deliver the nation. They could not understand how that could be, if he was soon to…
Adam Clarke
But they understood not - See the note on Mar 9:32.
We may observe here, I. The impression which Christ's miracles made upon all that beheld them (Luk 9:43): They were all amazed at the mighty power of God, which they could not but see in all the…
Cambridge Bible
shake off the very dust from your feet See Act 13:51; Act 18:6.
they understood not This ignorance and incapacity, so humbly avowed, should be contrasted with the boldness and fulness of their…
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