17 Bible Verses about Not Understanding Sayings

And Jesus having known, said to them, 'Why reason ye in yourselves, ye of little faith, because ye took no loaves? 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 I did not speak to you of bread -- to take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?'

but they were not understanding the saying, and they were afraid to question him.

And they were not knowing this saying, and it was veiled from them, that they might not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

And they none of these things understood, and this saying was hid from them, and they were not knowing the things said.

And these things his disciples did not know at the first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were having been written about him, and these things they did to him.

for not yet did they know the Writing, that it behoveth him out of the dead to rise again.

Every one hearing the word of the reign, and not understanding -- the evil one doth come, and doth catch that which hath been sown in his heart; this is that sown by the way.

as also in all the epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, among which things are certain hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable do wrest, as also the other Writings, unto their own destruction.

And I have heard, and I do not understand, and I say, 'O my lord, what is the latter end of these?'

how do ye not understand that I did not speak to you of bread -- to take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?'

They knew not that of the Father he spake to them;

but Jesus had spoken about his death, but they thought that about the repose of sleep he speaketh.

and they who are with me the light did see, and became afraid, and the voice they heard not of him who is speaking to me --

since, if thou mayest bless with the spirit, he who is filling the place of the unlearned, how shall he say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since what thou dost say he hath not known?

This similitude spake Jesus to them, and they knew not what the things were that he was speaking to them;

and they did not understand the saying that he spake to them,

wherefore do ye not know my speech? because ye are not able to hear my word.