7 occurrences

'Understand' in the Bible

I speak to them in figurative language for this reason, that while looking they do not see, and while hearing they neither hear nor understand.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual Blindness, In UnbelieversDullnessNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsBeing Without UnderstandingJesus Using ParablesWhy God Did ThingsListening To God

And in regard to them the prophecy of Isaiah is receiving signal fulfilment: "'You will hear and hear and by no means understand, and you will look and look and by no means see.

Verse ConceptsReprobatesBeing Without UnderstandingScriptures FulfilledThe Faculty Of SightNamed Prophets Of The Lordfulfillment

When a man hears the Message concerning the Kingdom and does not understand it, the Evil one comes and catches away what has been sown in his heart. This is he who has received the seed by the road-side.

Verse ConceptsSatan, Titles ForSatan, As DeceiverSpiritual Warfare, Causes OfUnbelief, Nature And Effects OfNames And Titles For SatanSatan, Work OfSowing In VainUsing RoadsNot Understanding SayingsOther References To The HeartParables Of The KingdomTaking God's ThingsSeeds

Then, when He had called the people to Him, Jesus said, "Hear and understand.

Verse ConceptsCrowdsListeningAdvice, Receiving God's AdviceChrist Summoning

Do you not understand that whatever enters the mouth passes into the stomach and is afterwards ejected from the body?

Verse ConceptsStomachsEntering The MouthDefecationOther References To MouthsSexual Purityorganizationprocess

Do you not yet understand? nor even remember the 5,000 and the five loaves, and how many basketfuls you carried away,

Verse ConceptsFools, In Teaching Of Jesus ChristFive ThingsFive Thousand

How is it you do not understand that it was not about bread that I spoke to you? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

Verse ConceptsLack Of InsightDullnessLeavenedNot Understanding Sayings

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