22 Bible Verses about Dullness

Hypocrites, you know how to judge of the face of the earth, and of the heavens; but how is it that you do not judge of this time?

Why do you not know what I say? Because you can not understand my words.

there is none that understands; there is none that seeks after God;

Of him we have many things to say, and difficult to be explained, if we do say them, since you are slow in understanding.

For the heart of this people has become fat; and with their ears they hear heavily; and their eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should turn to me, and I should give them health.

Of him we have many things to say, and difficult to be explained, if we do say them, since you are slow in understanding. For though you ought to be teachers, considering the time, yet you have need that some one teach you again what are the first elements of the oracles of God; and you have be come such as have need of milk, and not of strong food. For every one that partakes of milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.read more.
But strong food belongs to those who are of mature age, who, by use, have their internal senses exercised to the discerning of both good and evil.

For the heart of this people has become fat, and with their ears they hear heavily, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should turn, and I should restore them to health.

For this reason I speak to them in parables; because when they see, they see not; and when they hear, they hear not, nor do they understand.

without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful;

that are always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Jesus replied: Are you also yet without understanding?

How is it that you do not understand, that I did not speak of bread when I commanded you to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?

But they did not understand this saying, and it was concealed from them, that they might not understand it; and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

And they understood none of these things; and this saying was concealed from them; and they understood not the things that were spoken.

And he said to them: inconsiderate, and slow of heart to believe all things that the prophets have spoken!

Jesus said to him: Have I been so long with you, and have you not known me, Philip? He that has seen me, has seen the Father; and how say you, Show us the Father?

Then the Jews said to him: Forty and six years was this temple in building, and will you rebuild it in three days?

Nicodemus said to him: How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb the second time, and be born?

The woman said to him: Sir, you have ho vessel with which you can draw, and the well is deep; whence have you that living water?

But he said to them: I have food to eat of which you know not. Then the disciples said one to another: Has any one brought him food?

Then his disciples said: Lord, if he sleeps, he will be saved. Jesus spoke of his death; but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.

I am the bread that lives, which came down from heaven. If any one eat of this bread, he shall live forever. And the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. The Jews, therefore, contended among themselves, saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat?