Because of this I speak to them in parables, because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, nor do they understand.

And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which says, By hearing ye will hear, and will, no, not understand, and seeing ye will see, and will, no, not perceive.

For this people's heart became fat, and their ears hear heavily, and their eyes are shut, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should turn, and I will heal them.

And having called in the multitude, he said to them, Hear and understand.

Do ye not yet understand, that everything entering into the mouth goes into the belly, and is cast out into a toilet?

Do ye not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up,

How do ye not understand that I spoke to you not about bread, to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?

When therefore ye see the abomination of desolation that was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him who reads understand),