To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are not circumcised, and they cannot listen. Behold, the Word of Jehovah is 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 darkness rather than the Light, because their deeds were evil.

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

Weaned

Surely I have behaved and have quieted my soul, as one weaned by its mother; my soul on me is like one weaned.

At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank You, O Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the sophisticated and cunning, and revealed them to babes.

And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things which He did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David, they were angry.

Truly I say to you, Whoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter into it.

desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;

General references

So I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they do not know the way of Jehovah, nor the judgment of their God.

And Jesus said, Are you also still without understanding?

And He said to them, Are you also without understanding? Do you not perceive that whatever enters into the man from outside cannot defile him,