'Understand' in the Bible

Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says,‘You will keep on hearing, but will not understand;You will keep on seeing, but will not perceive;

For the heart of this people has become dull,With their ears they scarcely hear,And they have closed their eyes,Otherwise they would see with their eyes,Hear with their ears,And understand with their heart and return,And I would heal them.’

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 the one on whom seed was sown beside the road.

After Jesus called the crowd to Him, He said to them, “Hear and understand.

Do you not understand that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and is eliminated?

Do you not yet understand or remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets full you picked up?

How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

“Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

so that while seeing, they may see and not perceive, and while hearing, they may hear and not understand, otherwise they might return and be forgiven.”

And He *said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How will you understand all the parables?

After He called the crowd to Him again, He began saying to them, “Listen to Me, all of you, and understand:

And He *said to them, “Are you so lacking in understanding also? Do you not understand that whatever goes into the man from outside cannot defile him,

And Jesus, aware of this, *said to them, “Why do you discuss the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet see or understand? Do you have a hardened heart?

And He was saying to them, “Do you not yet understand?”

But they did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask Him.

Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are mistaken, that you do not understand the Scriptures or the power of God?

“But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains.

But he denied it, saying, “I neither know nor understand what you are talking about.” And he went out onto the porch.

But they did not understand the statement which He had made to them.

And He said, “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is in parables, so that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.

But they did not understand this statement, and it was concealed from them so that they would not perceive it; and they were afraid to ask Him about this statement.

Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and do not understand these things?

Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word.

This figure of speech Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what those things were which He had been saying to them.

but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father.”

These things His disciples did not understand at the first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of Him, and that they had done these things to Him.

Jesus answered and said to him, “What I do you do not realize now, but you will understand hereafter.”

For as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead.

And he supposed that his brethren understood that God was granting them deliverance through him, but they did not understand.

Philip ran up and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

Opening his mouth, Peter said:“I most certainly understand now that God is not one to show partiality,

And those who were with me saw the light, to be sure, but did not understand the voice of the One who was speaking to me.

And I said, ‘Lord, they themselves understand that in one synagogue after another I used to imprison and beat those who believed in You.

saying,‘Go to this people and say,“You will keep on hearing, but will not understand;And you will keep on seeing, but will not perceive;

For the heart of this people has become dull,And with their ears they scarcely hear,And they have closed their eyes;Otherwise they might see with their eyes,And hear with their ears,And understand with their heart and return,And I would heal them.”’

For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.

but as it is written,“They who had no news of Him shall see,And they who have not heard shall understand.”

But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.

But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.

For we write nothing else to you than what you read and understand, and I hope you will understand until the end;

just as you also partially did understand us, that we are your reason to be proud as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

By referring to this, when you read you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ,

So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

wanting to be teachers of the Law, even though they do not understand either what they are saying or the matters about which they make confident assertions.

By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.

as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

But these men revile the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed.