17 Bible Verses about Not Understanding Sayings

But knowing [this], Jesus said, "Why are you discussing among yourselves that you did not take bread, [you] of little faith? Do you not yet understand or do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up? Or the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many baskets you took up?read more.
How do you 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 the statement, and they were afraid to ask him.

But they did not understand this statement, and it was concealed from them so that they could not understand it. And they were afraid to ask him about this statement.

And they understood none of these [things], and this saying was concealed from them, and they did not comprehend the things that were said.

(His disciples did not understand these [things] at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these [things] had been written about him and they did these [things] to him.)

(For they did not yet know the scripture that it was necessary for him to rise from the dead.)

[When] anyone hears the word about the kingdom and does not understand [it], the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is what was sown on the side of the path.

as [he does] also in all his letters, speaking in them about these [things], in which there are some [things] hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable distort to their own destruction, as [they] also [do] the rest of the scriptures.

Now I myself heard, but I [did] not understand, and I said, "My lord, what [will be the] outcome [of] these [things]?"

How do you not understand that I did not speak to you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

(They did not know that he was speaking to them about the Father.)

(Now Jesus had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about {real sleep}.)

(Now those who were with me saw the light but did not hear the voice of the one who was speaking to me.)

For otherwise, if you praise in [your] spirit, how will the one who fills the place of the outsider say the "amen" at your thanksgiving, because he does not know what you are saying?

Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what it was that he was saying to them.

And they did not understand the statement that he spoke to them.

{Why} do you not understand my way of speaking? Because you are not able to listen to my message.