They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.
Ver. 27. They understood not] Though he cited them to God's dreadful tribunal, and threatened them with his judgment. The devil had strangely stupefied them; like the smith's dog, whom neither the hammer above him nor the sparks of fire falling round about him can awake; like birds in a belfry or fishes in the sea, not frightened at any ringing or roaring made there.