'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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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."

that "'They may look and look but not see, and listen and listen but not understand, lest perchance they should return and be pardoned.'"

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

Then Jesus called the people to Him again. "Listen to me, all of you," He said, "and understand.

"Have *you* also so little understanding?" He replied; "do you not understand that anything whatever that enters a man from outside cannot make him unclean,

He perceived what they were saying, and He said to them, "What is this discussion of yours about having no bread? Do you not yet see and understand? Are your minds so dull of comprehension?

"Do you not yet understand?" He said.

They, however, did not understand what He meant, and were afraid to question Him.

But he denied it, and said, "I don't know--I don't understand--What do you mean?" And then he went out into the outer court. Just then a cock crowed.

But they did not understand the significance of these words.

"To you," He replied, "it is granted to know the secrets of the Kingdom of God; but all others are taught by parables, in order that they may see and yet not see, and may hear and yet not understand.

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.

Nothing of this did they understand. The words were a mystery to them, nor could they see what He meant.

Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

"Are you," replied Jesus, "'the Teacher of Israel,' and yet do you not understand these things?

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

How is it you do not understand me when I speak? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my words.

Jesus spoke to them in this figurative language, but they did not understand what He meant.

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.

So after He had washed their feet, put on His garments again, and returned to the table, He said to them, "Do you understand what I have done to you?

So they asked one another repeatedly, "What can that 'little while' mean which He speaks of? We do not understand His words."

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.

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."

He supposed his brethren to be aware that by him God was sending them deliverance; this, however, they did not understand.

So Philip ran up and heard the eunuch reading the Prophet Isaiah. "Do you understand what you are reading?" he asked.

"Understand therefore, brethren, that through this Jesus forgiveness of sins is announced to you;

So Paul associated with the men; and the next day, having purified himself with them, he went into the Temple, giving every one to understand that the days of their purification were finished, and there he remained until the sacrifice for each of them was offered.

"'Go to this people and tell them, you will hear and hear, and by no means understand; and will look and look, and by no means see.

But again, did Israel fail to understand? Listen to Moses first. He says, "I will fire you with jealousy against a nation which is no nation, and with fury against a nation devoid of understanding."

But, as Scripture says, "Those shall see, to whom no report about Him has hitherto come, and those who until now have not heard shall understand."

Now as to things which have been sacrificed to idols. This is a subject which we already understand--because we all have knowledge of it. Knowledge, however, tends to make people conceited; it is love that builds us up.

For this reason I would have you understand that no one speaking under the influence of The Spirit of God ever says, "Jesus is accursed," and that no one is able to say, "Jesus is Lord," except under the influence of the Holy Spirit.

On this account do not prove yourselves wanting in sense, but try to understand what the Lord's will is.

They are ambitious to be teachers of the Law, although they do not understand either their own words or what the things are about which they make such confident assertions.

Through faith we understand that the worlds came into being, and still exist, at the command of God, so that what is seen does not owe its existence to that which is visible.

That is what he says in all his letters, when speaking in them of these things. In those letters there are some statements hard to understand, which ill-taught and unprincipled people pervert, just as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own ruin.

Yet these men are abusive in matters of which they know nothing, and in things which, like the brutes, they understand instinctively--in all these they corrupt themselves.