Mark 9:30 (LSB)

Passage

From there they went out and were going through Galilee, and He was not wanting anyone to know about it.

Nearby Context

Mark 9:28 And when He came into the house, His disciples began questioning Him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?”

Mark 9:29 And He said to them, “This kind cannot come out by anything but prayer.”

Mark 9:30 From there they went out and were going through Galilee, and He was not wanting anyone to know about it.

Mark 9:31 For He was teaching His disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill Him; and when He has been killed, He will rise again three days later.”

Mark 9:32 But they did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask Him.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "went", "going", "through", "galilee", "wanting", and "anyone". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "went" and "going", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 29's "And He said to them This kind..." into verse 31's "For He was teaching His disciples and...", so "went" and "going" 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 "went" and "going" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.