John 10:6
Jesus spoke to them in this figurative language, but they did not understand what He meant.
Matthew 13:13-14
I speak to them in figurative language for this reason, that while looking they do not see, and while hearing they neither hear nor understand.
Matthew 13:51
"Have you understood all this?" He asked. "Yes," they said.
John 6:52
This led to an angry debate among the Jews. "How can this man," they argued, "give us his flesh to eat?"
John 6:60
Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard it, said, "This is hard to accept. Who can listen to such teaching?"
John 7:36
What do those words of his mean, 'You will look for me, but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come'?"
John 8:27
They did not perceive that He was speaking to them of the Father.
John 8:43
How is it you do not understand me when I speak? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my words.
John 16:25
"All this I have spoken to you in veiled language. The time is coming when I shall no longer speak to you in veiled language, but will tell you about the Father in plain words.
1 Corinthians 2:14
The unspiritual man rejects the things of the Spirit of God, and cannot attain to the knowledge of them, because they are spiritually judged.
1 John 5:20
And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we know the true One, and are in union with the true One--that is, we are in union with His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and the Life of the Ages.