CONCORDANCE:String = disappointment
rwp@Mark:8:17 @Mark here (vv. 17-20|) gives six keen questions of Jesus while kjv@Matthew:16:8-11|...The questions reveal the disappointment of ...(\noeite\, from \nous, suniete\, comprehend), the heart in a {hardened state} (\pep“r“menˆn\, perfect passive predicate participle as in kjv@Mark:6:52|, which see), the eyes, the ears, the memory of both the feeding of the five thousand and the four thousand here sharply distinguished even to the two kinds of baskets (\kophinous, sphurid“n\). The disciples did recall the number of baskets left over in each instance, twelve and seven. Jesus "administers a sharp rebuke for their preoccupation with mere temporalities, as if there were nothing higher to be thought of _than bread_" (Bruce). "For the time the Twelve are way-side hearers, with hearts like a beaten path, into which the higher truths cannot sink so as to germinate" (Bruce).
rwp@Matthew:26:40 @{What} (\hout“s\). The Greek adverb is not interrogation or exclamatory \ti\...a tone of sad disappointment at ...(verse 38|). "Did you not thus have strength enough to keep awake one hour?" Every word struck home.
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