'Meaning' in the Bible

"Do you all miss the meaning of this parable?" He added; "how then will you understand the rest of my parables?"

At last the High Priest stood up, and advancing into the midst of them all, asked Jesus, "Have you no answer to make? What is the meaning of all this that these witnesses allege against you?"

The meaning of the parable is as follows. The seed is God's Message.

But they did not understand His meaning: it was veiled from them that they might not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask Him about it.

for I tell you that I certainly shall not eat one again till its full meaning has been brought out in the Kingdom of God."

For it is in this that you see the real meaning of the saying, 'The sower is one person, and the reaper is another.'

The meaning of this His disciples did not understand at the time; but after Jesus was glorified they recollected that this was written about Him, and that they had done this to Him.

While Peter was greatly perplexed as to the meaning of the vision which he had seen, just then the men sent by Cornelius, having by inquiry found out Simon's house,

But Elymas (or 'the Magician,' for such is the meaning of the name)

and the Searcher of hearts knows what the Spirit's meaning is, because His intercessions for God's people are in harmony with God's will.

My meaning is that Christ has become a servant to the people of Israel in vindication of God's truthfulness-- in showing how sure are the promises made to our forefathers--

All this kept happening to them with a figurative meaning; but it was put on record by way of admonition to us upon whom the ends of the Ages have come.

If, however, I do not know the meaning of the particular language, I shall seem to the speaker of it, and he to me, to be merely talking some foreign tongue.

If, however, the meaning of our Good News has been veiled, the veil has been on the hearts of those who are on the way to perdition,

the secret meaning of the seven stars which you have seen in My right hand, and of the seven lampstands of gold. The seven stars are the ministers of the seven Churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven Churches.

Then the angel said to me, "Why are you so astonished? I will explain to you the secret meaning of the woman and of the seven-headed, ten-horned Wild Beast which carries her.

"Make no secret," he added, "of the meaning of the predictions contained in this book; for the time for their fulfillment is now close at hand.