He saw that they misunderstood Him.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
The verses are of "sorrow born," the result of private grief; and if misunderstood, and open to the charge of attempting to solve such grave questions of doubt as affect some minds, they would deserve the scorn of men.
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty
Because love was altogether associated in my mind with pain-the pain of losing, and the pain of loving and of not being loved, and of being generally misunderstood.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee