O fools: Rather, inconsiderate men, ανοητοι [Strong's G453], justly termed such, because they had not attended to the description of the Messiah by the prophets, nor to His teaching and miracles, as proofs that He alone was the person described. Mar 7:18, Mar 8:17-18, Mar 9:19, Mar 16:14; Heb 5:11-12