Mark 6:52 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

More versions

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

O Lord, why dost thou make us err from thy ways and harden our heart, so that we fear thee not? Return for the sake of thy servants, the tribes of thy heritage.

Mark 16:14

Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they sat at table; and he upbraided them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.

Mark 3:5

And he looked around at them with anger, 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

And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside cannot defile him,

Luke 24:25

And he said to them, “O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

John 12:40

“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes and perceive with their heart, and turn for me to heal them.”

Romans 11:7

What then? Israel failed to obtain what it sought. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened,