To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken. Behold, the word of LORD has become to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their deeds were evil.

so that the word of Isaiah the prophet that he spoke might be fulfilled: Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of Lord been revealed?

Weaned

Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul like a weaned child with his mother. Like a weaned child is my soul within me.

Jesus having responded at that time, said, I extol thee, O Father, Lord of the heaven and the earth, because thou hid these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to the childlike.

But when the chief priests and the scholars saw the wonderful things that he did, and the boys crying out in the temple and saying, Hosanna to the son of David, they were indignant,

Truly I say to you, whoever will not receive the kingdom of God as a child, he will, no, not enter it.

as newborn babes, long for the genuine intellectual milk, so that ye may grow by it,

General references

Then I said, Surely these are poor, they are foolish, for they know not the way of LORD, nor the law of their God.

And Jesus said, Are ye also still without understanding?

And he says to them, Are also ye so without understanding? Do ye not perceive that everything outside that enters into the man cannot defile him,