17 Bible Verses about Not Understanding Sayings

When Jesus understood that, he said unto them, "O ye of little faith, why are your minds cumbered because ye have brought no bread? Do ye not yet perceive, neither remember those five loaves, when there were five thousand men, and how many baskets took ye up? Neither the seven loaves, when there were four thousand, and how many baskets took ye up?read more.
Why perceive ye not, then, that I spake not unto you of bread, when I said, 'Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?'"

But they wist not what that saying meant, and were afraid to ask him.

But they wist not what that word meant, and it was hid from them that they understood it not. And they feared to ask him of that saying.

But they understood none of these things. And this saying was hid from them. And they perceived not the things which were spoken.

These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that such things were written of him, and that such things they had done unto him.

For as yet they knew not the scriptures, that he should rise again from death.

Whosoever heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, there cometh the evil man, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. And this is he which was sown by the wayside.

yea, almost in every epistle, speaking of such things: among which are many things hard to be understood: which they that are unlearned and unstable pervert, as they do other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

I heard it well, but I understood it not. Then said I, "O my Lord, what shall happen after that?"

Why perceive ye not, then, that I spake not unto you of bread, when I said, 'Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?'"

Howbeit, they understood not that he spake of his father.

Howbeit, Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of the natural sleep.

And they that were with me saw verily a light and were afraid: but they heard not the voice of him that spake with me.

For else when thou blessest with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say "amen" at thy giving of thanks? Seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?

This similitude spake Jesus unto them. But they understood not, what things they were, which he spake unto them.

And they understood not the saying that he spake to them.

Why do ye not know my speech? Even because ye cannot abide the hearing of my words.