22 Bible Verses about Dullness

Ye hypocrites! ye know how to discern by experience from the appearance of the earth and of the sky; but how is it that ye do not discern this particular time?

Wherefore do ye not understand my speech? because ye cannot hear my word.

there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

Concerning whom we have much to discourse, and of difficult interpretation to explain, seeing ye are dull of hearing.

for the heart of this people is waxed gross, and with their ears they have heard heavily, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with the eves, and hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

Concerning whom we have much to discourse, and of difficult interpretation to explain, seeing ye are dull of hearing. For though ye ought for the time to be teachers of others, ye have again need that some one teach you the leading principles of the oracles of God; and are become as those who need milk, and not solid food. For every one who useth milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness: for he is an infant.read more.
But solid nourishment is proper for grown men, even as many as by habit have their organs of perception exercised for the discernment both of good and evil.

For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and with their ears they are thick of hearing, and their eyes have they shut; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and become converts, and I should heal them."

Therefore I speak to them in parables: that seeing, they may not see; and hearing, they may not hear nor understand.

unintelligent, unfaithful to engagements, unnatural, implacable, unmerciful:

always learning, yet never able to attain unto the knowledge of truth.

And Jesus said, Are ye also to this time destitute of intelligence?

How is it that ye do not understand, that I spake not to you of bread, to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?

And they understood not that declaration, and it was hid from them, that they should not comprehend its meaning: and they were afraid to ask him concerning that saying.

And they understood none of these things: and the saying was concealed from them, and they knew not the things which were spoken.

And he said unto them, O ye void of understanding, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

Jesus saith to him, Am I all this while with you, and hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou, Shew us the Father?

Then said the Jews, This temple has been forty-six years in building, and canst thou rear it up in three days?

Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

The woman saith unto him, Thou hast no bucket, and the well is deep: whence then canst thou have this water that giveth life?

But he said to them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. Then said his disciples to each other, Hath any person brought him ought to eat?

Then said his disciples, Lord, if he is asleep, he will recover. Now Jesus had spoken of his death: but they apprehended that he spake of taking rest in sleep.

I am the bread that giveth life, which came down from heaven: if any person eat of this bread, he shall live to eternity; and the bread indeed which I shall give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. Then the Jews contended with each other, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?