Mark 4:10

His Soli tude wi th Us. When God gets us alone by af fliction, heartbreak, or te mptation, by disappointmen t, sickness, or by thwarted af fection, by a bro ken friendship, or by a new fnendship - when He gets us a bsolutely alone, a nd we are dumbfounded, and cannot ask one question, then He begins to expound.

W atch Jesus Christ's training of the twelve. It was the disciples, not the crowd outside , who were perplexed. They c onstantly asked H im questions, and He c onstantly expounded things to them; but they only understood after they had received the Holy Spirit (see John 14:26).