Acts 17:20
For you are bringing some astonishing things to our ears. Therefore we want to know what {these things mean}."
Hosea 8:12
I write for him myriads of my instruction; they are regarded as a strange thing.
1 Peter 4:4
with respect to which they are surprised [when] you do not run with [them] into the same flood of dissipation, [and so they] revile [you].
Matthew 19:23-25
And Jesus said to his disciples, "Truly I say to you that with difficulty a rich person will enter into the kingdom of heaven!
Mark 9:10
And they kept the matter to themselves, discussing what this rising from the dead {meant}.
Mark 10:24-26
And the disciples were astounded at his words. But Jesus answered [and] said to them again, "Children, how difficult it is to enter into the kingdom of God!
John 6:60
Thus many of his disciples, [when they] heard [it], said, "This saying is hard! Who can understand it?"
John 7:35-36
So the Jews said to one another, "Where [is] this one going to go, that we will not find him? He is not going to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, [is he]?
Acts 2:12
And all were amazed and greatly perplexed, saying {to one another}, "{What can this mean?}"
Acts 10:17
Now while Peter was greatly perplexed within himself [as to] what the vision that he had seen might be, behold, the men who had been sent by Cornelius, having found the house of Simon by asking around, stood at the gate.
1 Corinthians 1:18
For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 1:23
but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a cause for stumbling, but to the Gentiles foolishness,
1 Corinthians 2:14
But the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to understand [them], because they are spiritually discerned.
Hebrews 5:11
Concerning this {we have much to say and it is difficult to explain}, since you have become sluggish in hearing.