Matthew 15:16

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Matthew 15:16

And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?

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Then calling out to the crowd, he addressed them, "Listen and understand!

"Do you understand all these things?" They told him, "Yes."

Don't you understand yet? Don't you remember the five loaves for the 5,000 and how many baskets you collected,

To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? To children just weaned from milk? To those just taken from the breast?

because they didn't understand the significance of the loaves. Instead, their hearts were hardened.

He asked them, "Are you so ignorant? Don't you know that nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make him unclean?

Knowing this, Jesus asked them, "Why are you discussing the fact that you don't have any bread? Don't you understand or perceive yet? Are your hearts hardened?

They didn't understand what this statement meant, and they were afraid to ask him.

But they didn't know what this meant. Indeed, the meaning was hidden from them so that they didn't understand it; and they were afraid to ask him about this statement.

But they didn't understand any of this. What he said was hidden from them, and they didn't know what he meant.

Then he opened their minds so that they might understand the Scriptures.

In fact, though by now you should be teachers, you still need someone to teach you the basic truths of God's word. You have become people who need milk instead of solid food.