There was much that the Eleven did not yet understand, but they did believe that Jesus had come from God and that His utterances (Gr. rhemata) were God"s words. Commendably they accepted Jesus" teachings even though they did not understand them fully, and what they understood they believed. Jesus" unusual phrasing stresses His unity with the Father. [source][source][source]
"As long as we stay with the figure of the Galilean Jesus (perhaps romanticizing over the beauty of his holiness and lowliness) so long we miss what really matters. What is central is that all that we see in him is of God. It is not so much the Man of Galilee as the eternal God on whom our attention should rest." [1][source]