John 10:6

Jesus gave them this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.

Psalm 82:5

They do not know or understand;
they wander in darkness.
All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Psalm 106:7

Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp
the significance of Your wonderful works
or remember Your many acts of faithful love;
instead, they rebelled by the sea—the Red Sea.

Proverbs 28:5

Evil men do not understand justice,
but those who seek the Lord understand everything.

Isaiah 6:9-10

And He replied:

Go! Say to these people:
Keep listening, but do not understand;
keep looking, but do not perceive.

Isaiah 56:11

These dogs have fierce appetites;
they never have enough.
And they are shepherds
who have no discernment;
all of them turn to their own way,
every last one for his own gain.

Daniel 12:10

Many will be purified, cleansed, and refined, but the wicked will act wickedly; none of the wicked will understand, but the wise will understand.

Matthew 13:13-14

For this reason I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see, and hearing they do not listen or understand.

Matthew 13:51

“Have you understood all these things?”

“Yes,” they told Him.

John 6:52

At that, the Jews argued among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”

John 6:60

Therefore, when many of His disciples heard this, they said, “This teaching is hard! Who can accept it?”

John 7:36

What is this remark He made: ‘You will look for Me, and you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come’?”

John 8:27

They did not know He was speaking to them about the Father.

John 8:43

Why don’t you understand what I say? Because you cannot listen to My word.

John 16:25

“I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. A time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.

1 Corinthians 2:14

But the unbeliever does not welcome what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know the true One. We are in the true One—that is, in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

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Summary

John 10:6

This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.

They understood not

General references

Luke 18:34

Bible References