'Understand' in the Bible

Jesus answered him, "You're the teacher of Israel, and you can't understand this?

The woman said to Him, “Sir, I see that You are a prophet.

You [Samaritans] do not know what you worship; we [Jews] do know what we worship, for salvation is from the Jews.

but I know you and recognize that you do not have the love of God in yourselves.

Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said, "This is a difficult saying! Who can understand it?"

If anyone wants to do His will, he will understand whether the teaching is from God or if I am speaking on My own.

But this rabble who understand nothing about the Law are accursed!"

(They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)

So Jesus said, “When you lift up the Son of Man [on the cross], you will know then [without any doubt] that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own authority, but I say these things just as My Father taught Me.

Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

Jesus gave them this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.

But if I am doing them and you don’t believe Me, believe the works. This way you will know and understand that the Father is in Me and I in the Father.”

Nor do you understand that it is expedient and politically advantageous for you that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”

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

He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

Jesus answered him, “What I’m doing you don’t understand now, but afterward you will know.”

So when Jesus had washed their feet and put his outer clothing back on, he took his place at the table again and said to them, "Do you understand what I have done for you?

If you understand these things, how blessed you are if you put them into practice!

I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father.

“If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me before it hated you.

But they will do all these [hurtful] things to you for My name’s sake [because you bear My name and are identified with Me], for they do not know the One who sent Me.

So they kept on repeating, "What is the meaning of what he says, 'In a little while'? We do not understand what he is talking about."

Now this is eternal life: that they may know You, the only true [supreme and sovereign] God, and [in the same manner know] Jesus [as the] Christ whom You have sent.

Now they understand that everything you have given me comes from you,

because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.

I in them and Thou in me; that they may stand perfected in one; that the world may come to understand that Thou didst send me and hast loved them with the same love as that with which Thou hast loved me.

“O just and righteous Father, although the world has not known You and has never acknowledged You [and the revelation of Your mercy], yet I have always known You; and these [believers] know [without any doubt] that You sent Me;

Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews, "See, I am bringing him out to you to let you clearly understand that I find no crime in him."

For they still did not understand the Scripture that He must rise from the dead.