Luk 22:32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren

THINK ABOUT THIS ebw JESUS telling Peter after he followed Him FOR 3 ABOUT YEARS ,SEEING ALL MIRACLES AND BEING WITH JESUS ALL THE TIME .
WE FIND THAT PETER wasn't converted yet!
So like George says The disciples were still in between and discovering what Jesus was teaching them and most of them were not that spiritual yet!!!!
He also had to explain them most of His parables etc...
After His resurrection they realised that Jesus's sayings were quite supernatural and then with the Holy Spirit finishing the job they were ushered into the new age like George tries to explain I think...

> ...you're wrong. I thought I had made that
> very clear. Maybe you're thrown off by my
> use of the word "age". But, as
> shown in many of Daniel's posts here, the
> word "age" is very appropriate in
> some contexts, even if the
> dispensationalists have misused the idea.

> "Ages" in history -- bronze age,
> iron age, dark age, age of reason, etc. --
> are a way of showing the primary influence
> or innovation of a particular period of
> time. In the case of the Jews, from Moses
> till Jesus, the Law and the Prophets were
> THE standard of measure for everything that
> went on in their world; at least it was
> supposed to be.

> Luke 16:16 "The law and the prophets
> were until John [the Baptist]: since that
> time the kingdom of God is preached, and
> every man presseth into it."

> John was the last of the Old Covenant
> prophets. Jesus was born under (and
> ministered under) the terms of the Old
> Covenant. The preached that the Kingdom was
> AT HAND, and of course, Jesus taught about
> how things were going to change with the
> arrival of the New Covenant (e.g. Jn. 4:23,
> 24). But it was not really in force until He
> gave His blood on the Cross (Mt. 26:28 and
> parallel verses in Mk. and Lk.; 1 Co. 11:25;
> He. 10:29; 12;24; 13:20, etc.).

> The disciples knew He was the Son of God,
> but that had all kinds of misconceptions
> about what that meant; things they had been
> taught in Jewish tradition about what
> Messiah was expected to do. There was
> nothing in that tradition, or in prophetic
> language, that would have led them to
> connect what Jesus was saying to the
> "end of time" or the "end of
> the world". But in Mt. 24, they used
> the phrase, "end of the age", with
> good reason.