“And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way?”
They came to Capernaum. When he was in the house, he asked them, what were you arguing about on the road? — the return to Capernaum and the house brings the journey through Galilee to its base-camp conclusion. The question about what they were arguing about on the road is asked by Jesus, who apparently knows the answer — the question is pedagogical, not informational.
Church Fathers on Mark 9:33
It is after miracles that the Lord inserts a discourse concerning His Passion, lest it should be thought that He suffered because He could not help it.
He always mingles together sorrowful and joyful things, that sorrow should not by its suddenness frighten the Apostles, but be borne by them with prepared minds.
Capernaum means the city of consolation, and agrees with the former sentence, which He had spoken: 'And after that He is killed, He shall arise the third day.'
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