He said to them, do you still not understand? — the question is the chapter's diagnostic conclusion: after two feedings, the storm stilling, the exorcisms, the healings, the private explanations — do you still not understand? The question does not receive an answer in the text. Mark leaves the silence as the answer. The disciples do not understand. The chapter will immediately follow with a healing that happens in two stages (verses 22–26) — a narrative picture of gradual sight that mirrors the disciples' gradual comprehension.

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