Passage

Words the listeners do not understand

Source and translation

World English Bible, Protestant Edition · Public domain · en

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³³They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again.”

Luke 18:33World English Bible, Protestant Edition

The scene

The prediction names scourging, death and rising on the third day.

To understand

The preceding line also names mockery, mistreatment and spitting. After the prediction, the narrator says the listeners understand none of it and that the saying is hidden from them.

A question

What gap does the narrator describe between the prediction being spoken and being understood?