Mark 9:32

Revised Standard Version

But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to ask him.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But they did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask him.

King James Version (1611)
But they vnderstood not that saying, and were afraid to aske him.

King James Version
But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him.

English Standard Version
But they did not understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

New American Standard Bible
But they did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask Him.

New Century Version
But the followers did not understand what Jesus meant, and they were afraid to ask him.

Amplified Bible
But they did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask Him [what He meant].

New American Standard Bible (1995)
But they did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask Him.

Legacy Standard Bible
But they did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask Him.

Berean Standard Bible
But they did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask Him about it.

Contemporary English Version
The disciples did not understand what Jesus meant, and they were afraid to ask.

Complete Jewish Bible
But they didn't understand what he meant, and they were afraid to ask him.

Darby Translation
But they understood not the saying, and feared to ask him.

Easy-to-Read Version
But the followers did not understand what he meant, and they were afraid to ask him.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But they vnderstoode not that saying, and were afraide to aske him.

George Lamsa Translation
But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to ask him.

Good News Translation
But they did not understand what this teaching meant, and they were afraid to ask him.

Lexham English Bible
But they did not understand the statement, and they were afraid to ask him.

Literal Translation
But they did not know the Word, and feared to question Him.

American Standard Version
But they understood not the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

Bible in Basic English
But the saying was not clear to them, and they were in fear of questioning him about it.

Hebrew Names Version
But they didn't understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

International Standard Version
They didn't understand what this statement meant, and were afraid to ask him.

Etheridge Translation
But they understood not [fn] his word, and feared to ask him.

Murdock Translation
But they did not understand that speech; and they were afraid to ask him.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But they vnderstoode not that saying, and were afrayde to aske hym.

English Revised Version
But they understood not the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

World English Bible
But they didn't understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him.

Weymouth's New Testament
They, however, did not understand what He meant, and were afraid to question Him.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei knewen not the word, and dredden to axe hym.

Update Bible Version
But they didn't understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

Webster's Bible Translation
But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him.

New English Translation
But they did not understand this statement and were afraid to ask him.

New King James Version
But they did not understand this saying, and were afraid to ask Him.

New Living Translation
They didn't understand what he was saying, however, and they were afraid to ask him what he meant.

New Life Bible
They did not understand what He said and were afraid to ask Him.

New Revised Standard
But they did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But they were not understanding the declaration, and feared, to question, him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(9-31) But they understood not the word: and they were afraid to ask him.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
But they wiste not what that sayinge meat and were affrayed to axe him.

Young's Literal Translation
but they were not understanding the saying, and they were afraid to question him.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But they vnderstode not that worde, and were afrayed to axe him.

Mace New Testament (1729)
but they did not comprehend the meaning, and were ashamed to ask him about it.

Simplified Cowboy Version
None of his cowboys really knew what he was talking about and they were too chicken to ask him.

Contextual Overview

³⁰ They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he would not have any one know it; ³¹ for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, "The Son of man will be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, after three days he will rise." ³² But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to ask him. ³³ And they came to Caper'na-um; and when he was in the house he asked them, "What were you discussing on the way?" ³⁴ But they were silent; for on the way they had discussed with one another who was the greatest. ³⁵ And he sat down and called the twelve; and he said to them, "If any one would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all." ³⁶ And he took a child, and put him in the midst of them; and taking him in his arms, he said to them, ³⁷ "Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me." ³⁸ John said to him, "Teacher, we saw a man casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he was not following us." ³⁹ But Jesus said, "Do not forbid him; for no one who does a mighty work in my name will be able soon after to speak evil of me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they: Mark 9:10, Luke 2:50, Luke 9:45, Luke 18:34, Luke 24:45

were: Mark 7:18, Mark 8:17, Mark 8:18, Mark 8:33, Mark 16:14, John 4:27, John 16:19

Reciprocal: Matthew 15:16 - General Matthew 16:21 - began Mark 8:31 - he began Luke 24:6 - remember John 16:17 - said John 20:9 - they John 21:12 - durst Acts 7:25 - but

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But they understood not that saying,.... Meaning either the whole of what he had said, concerning his delivery, death, and resurrection: and which then must be interpreted with some limitation; for they must understand the sense of his words, which were clear and express; especially concerning his death, which affected their minds with trouble and grief; for Matthew says, "they were exceeding sorry upon it", :-; but they could not understand how it could be, and upon what account, and for what end, so holy and good, and innocent a man as he was, could be put to death; nor how this could consist with his character, as the Son of God, the Messiah, and king of Israel; and with the notions they had of the Messiah's abiding for ever, and setting up a temporal kingdom on earth: or this may regard only his resurrection from the dead; which whether it was to be taken in a literal or mystical sense, they could not tell:

and were afraid to ask him; lest they should be upbraided with their ignorance and stupidity, as they had been lately rebuked by him for their unbelief, and the neglect of their duty; and as Peter had been severely reprimanded for expostulating with him about the selfsame things, delivered by him to them, not before.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 17:22-23.

Mark 9:31

Is delivered - Is given to men to make an atonement by his sufferings and death, and will in due time be taken and killed.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 32. But they understood not — This whole verse is wanting in two MSS., in the first edition of Erasmus, and in that of Aldus. Mill approves of the omission. It does not appear likely, from Matthew's account, that three of the disciples, Peter, James, and John, could be ignorant of the reasons of Christ's death and resurrection, after the transfiguration; on the contrary, from the circumstances there related, it is very probable that from that time they must have had at least a general understanding of this important subject; but the other nine might have been ignorant of this matter, who were not present at the transfiguration; probably it is of these that the evangelist speaks here. See the observations on the transfiguration, Matthew 17:9, &c., and Matthew 18:1.