But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
If ignorant, how could they be sorrowful? Because they were not altogether ignorant. They knew that he was soon to die, for they had continually been told about it. But just what this death might mean, they did not grasp clearly, nor that there would be a speedy recognition of it, from which innumerable blessings would flow. They did not see that there would be a resurrection. This is why they grieved. The Gospel of St. Matthew, Homily
