17 Bible Verses about Not Understanding Sayings

But Jesus, aware of this, said, "O you of little faith, why are you discussing among yourselves the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you gathered? Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?read more.
How is it that you fail to understand that I did not speak about bread? Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

But they did not understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

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

But they understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what was said.

His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him.

for as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path.

as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.

I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, "O my lord, what shall be the outcome of these things?"

How is it that you fail to understand that I did not speak about bread? Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

They did not understand that he had been speaking to them about the Father.

Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep.

Now those who were with me saw the light but did not understand the voice of the one who was speaking to me.

Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider say "Amen" to your thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying?

This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

And they did not understand the saying that he spoke to them.

Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.