Mark 9:31-33

J.B. Phillips New Testament

Jesus privately warns his disciples of his own death

^30-32 Then they left that district and went straight through Galilee. Jesus kept this journey secret for he was teaching his disciples that the Son of Man would be betrayed into the power of men, that they would kill him and that three days after his death he would rise again. But they were completely mystified by this saying, and were afraid to question him about it.

Jesus defines the new “greatness”

³³ So they came to Capernaum. And when they were indoors he asked them, “What were you discussing as we came along?”