22 Bible Verses about Dullness

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the look of the earth and sky; and why can you not interpret this present time?

Why is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my message.

No one understands, no one searches for God.

I have much to say to you about this, but it is difficult to make it clear to you, because you have become so slow of apprehension.

For this nation's mind has grown dull, And they hear faintly with their ears, And they have shut their eyes, So as never to see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their minds, and turn back, And let me cure them!'

I have much to say to you about this, but it is difficult to make it clear to you, because you have become so slow of apprehension. For although from the length of your Christian experience you ought to be teaching others, you actually need someone to teach you over again the very elements of Christian truth, and you have come to need milk instead of solid food. For anyone who is limited to milk is unacquainted with Christian teaching, for he is only an infant.read more.
But full-grown men have a right to solid food, for their faculties are trained by practice to distinguish right and wrong.

For this nation's mind has grown dull, And they hear faintly with their ears, And they have shut their eyes, So as never to see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their minds, and turn back, And let me cure them!" '

This is why I speak to them in figures, because though they look they do not see, and though they listen they do not hear or understand.

conscienceless, treacherous, unloving, and unpitying.

always ready to learn but never able to comprehend the truth.

He said, "Have even you no understanding yet?

Why do you not see that I was not talking to you about bread? But be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

But they did not understand what he meant, indeed it was concealed from them, in order that they might not comprehend it, and they were afraid to ask him what he meant.

And they did not understand any of this; the words were obscure to them, and they did not know what he meant.

Then he said to them, "How foolish you are and how slow to believe all that the prophets have said!

Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you, Philip, have not recognized me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Let us see the Father'?

The Jews said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this sanctuary, and are you going to raise 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 over again and be born?"

She said to him, "You have nothing to draw water with, sir, and the well is deep. Where can you get your living water?

But he said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know." So the disciples said to one another, "Do you suppose that someone has brought him something to eat?"

The disciples said to him, "Master, if he has fallen asleep he will recover." Now Jesus had referred to his death. But they supposed that he meant a natural falling asleep.

I am this living bread that has come down out of heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the world's life is my own flesh!" This led the Jews to dispute with one another. They said, "How can he give us his flesh to eat?"