The Argument on the Road: Mark 9:30-37

They passed through Galilee quietly—Jesus did not want anyone to know where they were. He was teaching his disciples, and the lesson was dark:

"The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men. They will kill him, and after three days he will rise."

They did not understand. Mark says they were afraid to ask—afraid of what more clarity might reveal, afraid of a future they could not bear to see.

So instead of asking about death and resurrection, they argued about something else entirely.