How would they reconcile this clear statement that he is going to be arrested and tried and killed, with their notion that he is immediately going to set up his earthly rule? Well, they probably took it as a metaphor, as if Christ was saying this – ‘I am going to be disapproved of, they are going to be against me, and it will take the form of a great battle, but I will be as good as dead, the forces arrayed against me, but I will not actually die, I will prevail, and we shall win.’