21 Bible Verses about Being Without Understanding

therefore speak I to them in parables: because they over-look what they see: and are inattentive to what they hear, neither will they comprehend.

and in them is fulfilled that prophecy of Esaias, "by hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand: and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive.

tho' they see, they will not perceive, and tho' they hear they will not understand: as if they were afraid of parting with their vices, in order to be pardoned.

"go to this people and say, hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive.

he answered, the secret circumstances of the divine dispensation may be clearly revealed to you, but to others only in parables, so that they don't observe what they see, nor comprehend what they hear.

for the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them."

and hardned their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them."

for the heart of this people is become gross, their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted and I should heal them."

and Jesus said, are ye also yet without understanding?

and he said, are you likewise so void of understanding? don't you perceive that what passes from without into a man cannot defile him?

said, why do you trouble your heads about your having no bread? are you yet so void of sense, and understanding? are your minds so blinded?

for, said they, we cannot comprehend the meaning of that expression, "within a little while?"

O the depth of the divine goodness, wisdom, and contrivance! how impenetrable are his decrees, and his ways past finding out!

for I dare not rank or compare my self with some who vaunt themselves: but they making their self-conceit the only standard whereby to judge of themselves, show their want of judgment.

there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

which are overspread with darkness, and averse to a religious life, thro' their innate ignorance and obduracy:

On this head we have many things to say, not easily to be comprehended, because of your prejudices.

have you eyes, and yet don't see? have you ears, and yet not hear? have you lost your memory too?

don't you yet, said he, comprehend my meaning?

Jesus answered him, are you a doctor in Israel, and not know these things?

pretending to be doctors of the law, tho' they neither understand what they advance, nor upon what it is founded.