22 Bible Verses about Dullness

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret day by day the look of earth and sky. Then how is it that you do not know how to interpret the present crisis?

Why is it that you misunderstand what I say? It is because you cannot listen to what I teach.

No one understands, no one is searching for God;

I have much to say to you about Him, but it is difficult to make it clear to you, since you have become so dull in your spiritual senses.

For this people's soul has grown dull, and with their ears they can scarcely hear, and they have shut tight their eyes, so that they will never see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn to me, so that I may cure them!'

I have much to say to you about Him, but it is difficult to make it clear to you, since you have become so dull in your spiritual senses. For although you ought to be teachers of others because you have been Christians so long, you actually need someone to teach you over and over again the very elements of the truths that God has given us, and you have gotten into such a state that you are in constant need of milk instead of solid food. For everyone who uses milk alone is inexperienced in the message of right-doing; he is only an infant.read more.
But solid food belongs to full-grown men who on account of constant use have their faculties trained to distinguish good and evil.

For this people's soul has grown dull, and they scarcely hear with their ears, and they have shut tight their eyes, so that they may never see with their eyes, and understand with their souls, and turn to me, that I may cure them."'

This is why I am speaking to them in stories, because they look but do not see, they listen but do not really hear or understand.

conscienceless, treacherous, with no human love or pity.

who are always trying to learn but never able to come to a full knowledge of the truth.

And He said, "Are you too, even yet, without understanding?

How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you about bread, when I said, keep on guarding yourselves against the yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees?"

But they remained ignorant of what this meant; indeed, it had been hidden from them, so that they did not grasp it, and they were afraid to ask Him about this statement.

But they did not understand about these things, and this statement was an insoluble riddle to them; they did not even begin to grasp what He meant.

Then He said to them, "O men sluggish in mind and slow in heart to believe all that the prophets have said!

Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you disciples 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'?

Then the Jews retorted, "It took forty-six years to build this sanctuary, and you are going to raise it in three days!"

Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot again enter his mother's womb and be born, can he?"

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

But He said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know." So the disciples began to say to one another, "Nobody has brought Him anything to eat, has he?"

The disciples said to Him, "Lord, if he has merely fallen asleep, he will recover." But Jesus had spoken about his death. However, they supposed that He was referring to falling into a natural sleep.

I am this living bread that has come down out of heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my own flesh." But the Jews kept on wrangling with one another and saying, "How can He give us His flesh to eat?"