Did Jesus hide this aspect of God from us during His three years of earthly ministry? (redeeminggod.com)
Now this kind of narrative is possible only because of the equation earthly Jesus = risen Lord and the consequent and subsequent equation: Situation in earthly ministry of Jesus = situation in early Church's experience, which equation is necessarily implied by the methodology of the synoptic evangelists. (religion-online.org)
Then (2) historically the disciples during Jesus» earthly ministry did not yet possess the fully formed faith which sprang from his resurrection; the judgment upon their prior faith, at first crude and but slowly developed, could be made only in the light of the fuller experience which came later. (religion-online.org)