And they feared to ask him— "Either they imagined that Christ, by the positive manner in which he delivered his prophesy, understood it to be adapted to their capacities, and therefore they dreaded to ask any farther explanation; or they were afraid to be more particularly informed of what contradicted their favourite notion of a temporal deliverer."
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Luke 9:45
45 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.