Jesus then said: Don't any of you know what I am talking about by now?
Jesus asked his disciples if they understood all these things. They said, “Yes, we do.”
Jesus called the crowd together and said, “Pay attention and try to understand what I mean.
Peter replied, “What did you mean when you talked about the things that make people unclean?”
Don't you know that the food you put into your mouth goes into your stomach and then out of your body?
Don't you know by now that I am not talking to you about bread? Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!
Don't you understand? Have you forgotten about the five thousand people and all those baskets of leftovers from just five loaves of bread?
Their minds were closed, and they could not understand the true meaning of the loaves of bread.
He answered, “Don't you know what I am talking about by now? Surely you know that the food you put into your mouth cannot make you unclean.
The disciples did not understand what Jesus meant, and they were afraid to ask.
The apostles did not understand what Jesus was talking about. They could not understand, because the meaning of what he said was hidden from them.
Then he helped them understand the Scriptures.
But the disciples did not know what he meant. The meaning was hidden from them. They could not understand it, and they were afraid to ask.
By now you should have been teachers, but once again you need to be taught the simplest things about what God has said. You need milk instead of solid food.