And they perceived not (κα ουκ εγινωσκον). Imperfect active. They kept on not perceiving. Twice already Luke has said this in the …

Understood none of these things. Although these things were plainly revealed, yet their prejudices and their unwillingness to believe them…

They understood none of these things.—The whole verse is peculiar to St. Luke and reproduces what had been said before in…

Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning…

St. Gregory the Great: The Savior, foreseeing that the hearts of His disciples would be troubled by His Passion, told them long…

In this prediction, Jesus for the first time mentions the Gentiles as his executors. Luke attributes the ignorance of the disciples (a theme much e…

And they understood none of these things. What stupidity was this, not to understand what Christ said to them in a plain and familiar mann…

And they understood none of these things
"Not one of them", as the Syriac and Persic versions render it; every artic…

The Spirit of Christ, in the Old Testament prophets, testified beforehand to his sufferings and the glory that would follow ([Reference 1 Peter 1:1…