¹⁷ then I saw all that God has done.^(A) No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.^(B)

Doxology

¹⁸ They kept asking, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We don’t understand what he is saying.”

¹⁹ Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him about this, so he said to them, “Are you asking one another what I meant when I said, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me’?

³² He will be delivered over to the Gentiles.^(A) They will mock him, insult him and spit on him; ³³ they will flog him^(B) and kill him.^(C) On the third day^(D) he will rise again.”^(E)

³⁴ The disciples did not understand any of this. Its meaning was hidden from them, and they did not know what he was talking about.^(F)