17 Bible Verses about Not Understanding Sayings

And Jesus knowing it, said, Why reason ye among yourselves, O ye of little faith, because ye have taken no bread? Do ye not yet understand nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many hand-baskets ye took up? nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?read more.
How do ye not understand that it was not concerning bread I said to you, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?

But they understood not the saying, and feared to ask him.

But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them that they should not perceive it. And they feared to ask him concerning this saying.

And they understood nothing of these things. And this word was hidden from them, and they did not know what was said.

Now his disciples knew not these things at the first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things to him.

for they had not yet known the scripture, that he must rise from among the dead.

From every one who hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the wicked one comes and catches away what was sown in his heart: this is he that is sown by the wayside.

as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; among which some things are hard to be understood, which the untaught and ill-established wrest, as also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

And I heard, but I understood not. And I said, My lord, what shall be the end of these things?

How do ye not understand that it was not concerning bread I said to you, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?

They knew not that he spoke to them of the Father.

But Jesus spoke of his death, but they thought that he spoke of the rest of sleep.

But they that were with me beheld the light, and were filled with fear, but heard not the voice of him that was speaking to me.

Since otherwise, if thou blessest with the spirit, how shall he who fills the place of the simple Christian say Amen, at thy giving of thanks, since he does not know what thou sayest?

This allegory spoke Jesus to them, but they did not know what it was of which he spoke to them.

And they understood not the thing that he said to them.

Why do ye not know my speech? Because ye cannot hear my word.