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What does Mark 9:32 mean?
"But they didn’t understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him."
— Mark 9:32 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting.”
They went out from there, and passed through Galilee. He didn’t want anyone to know it.
For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, “The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise again.”
But they didn’t understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.
He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?”
But they were silent, for they had disputed one with another on the way about who was the greatest.
He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, “If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.”
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