And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.
So they kept this whole conversation between themselves, trying to figure out what Jesus meant when he talked about rising from the dead.
Sometimes even the closest people to Jesus were confused by what he was saying.
📚 Historical Context
In the Gospel of Mark, this verse follows the Transfiguration of Jesus, where Peter, James, and John witnessed His divine glory and saw Elijah and Moses appear with Him. Jesus had just instructed them not to tell anyone about the event until after He had risen from the dead, which confused them because the idea of resurrection was a familiar Jewish concept from prophecies but not fully understood in this personal context. At that time, the disciples were grappling with how this applied to Jesus amid the cultural and religious expectations of first-century Judaism.
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