Mark 9:31 (DBY)

Passage

for he taught his disciples and said to them, The Son of man is delivered into men's hands, and they shall kill him; and having been killed, after three days he shall rise again.

Nearby Context

Mark 9:29 And he said to them, This kind can go out by nothing but by prayer and fasting.

Mark 9:30 And going forth from thence they went through Galilee; and he would not that any one knew it;

Mark 9:31 for he taught his disciples and said to them, The Son of man is delivered into men's hands, and they shall kill him; and having been killed, after three days he shall rise again.

Mark 9:32 But they understood not the saying, and feared to ask him.

Mark 9:33 And he came to Capernaum, and being in the house, he asked them, Of what were ye reasoning by the way?

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "taught", "disciples", "said", "delivered", "men's", "hands", "shall", and "kill". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "taught" and "disciples", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 30's "And going forth from thence they went..." into verse 32's "But they understood not the saying and...", so "taught" and "disciples" belong inside that flow. In Mark context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "taught" and "disciples" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.