16 Bible Verses about Not Understanding Sayings

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Matthew 16:8-11

which Jesus perceiving, he said, distrustful men, why do ye trouble your heads about forgetting the bread? where's your understanding? don't you remember the five loaves among five thousand and how many baskets ye took away? nor the seven loaves among the four thousand, and how many baskets ye carried away?read more.
why, can't you perceive, that in cautioning you to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the Sadducees, I did not speak of bread?

Mark 9:32

but they did not comprehend the meaning, and were ashamed to ask him about it.

Luke 9:45

but they did not comprehend that expression: it was as a riddle, which they could not understand, and they were afraid to desire him to explain the meaning of that expression.

Luke 18:34

but they comprehended nothing of all this: his discourse was a riddle to them, and they could not find out the meaning.

John 12:16

this passage his disciples did not understand at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, they remembred how they had mounted him, and perceiv'd that those words related to him.

John 20:9

for as yet they did not understand from the scripture, that he was to rise again from the dead.

Matthew 13:19

when any one heareth the doctrine of the gospel, and considers it not, then comes the wicked one, and catches away what was sown in his heart: he is the person meant by the high-way, where some of the seed was sown: but the stony ground,

2 Peter 3:16

as it were in all his epistles, where he takes notice of these things: in which there are some passages that are difficult to understand, which the illiterate, and unstable wrest, as they do the rest of the scriptures, to their own ruin.

Matthew 16:11

why, can't you perceive, that in cautioning you to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the Sadducees, I did not speak of bread?

John 8:27

but they did not perceive that he meant the father.

John 11:13

though Jesus meant it of Lazarus's death: but they understood it of the natural rest in sleep.

Acts 22:9

the company actually saw the light, but did not hear the voice of him that spoke to me.

1 Corinthians 14:16

otherwise if you should give thanks by the spirit in an unknown tongue, the hearer cannot but appear unlearned upon this occasion; how then can he say Amen to thy thanksgiving? since he does not conceive what you say.

John 10:6

Jesus talk'd to them in this figurative way: but they did not understand the meaning of his discourse.

Luke 2:50

but they did not comprehend the meaning of that expression.

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