180:6.9 When the eleven had heard him speak, they said to each other: " Behold, he does speak plainly to us. Surely the Master did come forth from God. But why does he say he must return to the Father? " And Jesus saw that they did not even yet comprehend him. These eleven men could not get away from their long-nourished ideas of the Jewish concept of the Messiah. The more fully they believed in Jesus as the Messiah, the more troublesome became these deep-rooted notions regarding the glorious material triumph of the kingdom on earth. | 180:6.9 When the eleven had heard him speak, they said to each other: " Behold, he does speak plainly to us. Surely the Master did come forth from God. But why does he say he must return to the Father? " And Jesus saw that they did not even yet comprehend him. These eleven men could not get away from their long-nourished ideas of the Jewish concept of the Messiah. The more fully they believed in Jesus as the Messiah, the more troublesome became these deep-rooted notions regarding the glorious material triumph of the kingdom on earth. |