Luke 9:43b-45.
While they were all amazed at his every deed, Jesus said to his disciples, "Pay attention to what I am telling you. The Son of Man is to be handed over to men." But they did not understand this saying; its meaning was hidden from them so that they should not understand it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.
The Gospel of the Lord.
How lonely he sounds.
"[I]ts meaning was hidden" but revealed in Friday's gospel: the Son of Man must suffer greatly, be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the scribes, be killed and on the third day be raised from the dead.
At Fort Dix in a chapel reading of the Passion, a 2nd grader calls out, "Where were the marines?"
St. John Chrysostom comments: "Let no one be scandalized by
this imperfection in the Apostles; for the Cross had not yet been reached nor
the grace of the Spirit given" ("Hom. on St. Matthew", 65).
To lie is to look away from the truth, because I'm afraid of it. Lies are evasions for the sake of comfort. Lies are afraid of nothing so much as the truth, because it has power to destroy them.
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