What are you arguing with them about? he asked — the question is addressed to the crowd and teachers of the law rather than to the disciples, drawing out the account that will explain the disciples' failure. The question establishes Jesus' arrival as the moment of resolution: the argument has been going on without him; now he has returned and asks what happened. The narrative structure positions Jesus as the one who can resolve what his disciples could not.

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