John 12:16 meaning and explanation
At first His disciples did not understand these things, but after Jesus was glorified they remembered what had been done to Him, and they realized that these very things had also been written about Him.
John 12:16, Berean Standard Bible
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John has just described the crowd hailing Jesus with palm branches and the words of Psalm 118, and Jesus entering Jerusalem on a donkey's colt, a scene drawn from Zechariah 9:9. The disciples who walked beside Him saw all this but did not grasp its meaning at the time.
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