And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.
And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them. Probably He had never said so much to them, and so they were confounded; though it was but the true interpretation of many things which they had seen and heard from Him at home. We have an example of this way of speaking in John 14:4-5, where the disciples are presumed to know more than had been told them in so many words.