Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 18:34

34 And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.

We shall afterward in the History of our Saviours passion, see all these things exactly fulfilled, and our Lord here assureth his Disciples, that it was but in accomplishment of all that was prophesied concerning the Messiah; nor was it any more than he had told them, Ch. 9.22. and again v. 44. Matth. 20.17. Mark 10.32, 33. yet it is said, That they understood none of these things. The Words were easie enough to be understood, but they could not Reconcile them, to the notion of the Messiah, which they had drank in, they could not conceive how the Messiah, that should redeem Israel should dye, or be thus barbarously used, by those whom he came to Redeem, or Save. We have great need to consider well what Notions we entertain concerning the things of God. All this Blindness, and unbelief of the Disciples, was bottomed in the false Notion of the Messiah, which they had taken up▪ However our Saviour thought fit to inculcate them, to prepare them against the offence they might take at them, when the Providence of God brought them forth, it is good for us to hear, tho it be only for the time come.