22 Bible Verses about Dullness
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You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky; but how is it you do not know how to interpret this present time?
About this we have much to say which is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
For this people's heart has grown dull. And their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and they understand with their hearts, and turn so that I should heal them.'
About this we have much to say which is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of God's word. You need milk, not solid food; for every one who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.read more.
But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their sense trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.
For this people's heart has become dull, and with their ears they scarcely hear, and their eyes they have closed; otherwise they might see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them."'
This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."
But they did not understand this saying, and it was hidden from them so that they did not perceive it; and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.
But they understood none of these things; this saying was hidden from them, and they did not know what he was talking about.
And he said to them, "O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you do not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father; how can you say, 'Show us the Father'?
The Jews then said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?"
Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?"
The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?
But he said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know." So the disciples said to one another, "Has any one brought him food?"
His disciples said, "Lord, if he sleeps, he will recover." Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep.
I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh." Then the Jews began to argue among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"
From Thematic Bible
Dullness » Condemned
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky; but how is it you do not know how to interpret this present time?
Dullness » Of israel
Dullness » General examples of
This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
For this people's heart has become dull, and with their ears they scarcely hear, and their eyes they have closed; otherwise they might see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them."'
Dullness » Of the disciples
How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."
And he said to them, "O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you do not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father; how can you say, 'Show us the Father'?
But they did not understand this saying, and it was hidden from them so that they did not perceive it; and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.