Mark 6:52 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

for they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For they failed to consider or understand [the teaching and meaning of the miracle of] the loaves; [in fact] their hearts had grown callous [had become dull and had lost the power of understanding].

American Standard Version (1901)

for they understood not concerning the loaves, but their heart was hardened.

Common English Bible

That’s because they hadn’t understood about the loaves. Their minds had been closed so that they resisted God’s ways.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For they did not understand about the bread. For their heart had been blinded.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For they understood not concerning the loaves; for their heart was blinded.

Mark 6:52 Cross References

Isaiah 63:17

Why, O Lord, do you let us stray from your ways and let our heart harden, so that we do not fear you? Turn back for the sake of your servants, the tribes that are your heritage.

Mark 16:14

Later he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were sitting at the table, and he upbraided them for their lack of faith and stubbornness, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.

Mark 3:5

He looked around at them with anger; he was grieved at their hardness of heart and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

Mark 7:18

He said to them, “So, are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile,

Luke 24:25

Then he said to them, “Oh, how foolish you are and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have declared!

John 12:40

“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they might not look with their eyes and understand with their heart and turn— and I would heal them.”

Romans 11:7

What then? Israel has not achieved what it was pursuing. The elect have achieved it, but the rest were hardened,