Jesus said, “Don’t you understand yet?
“Have you understood all of this?” “Yes,” they answered.
Then he called the crowd and said to them, “Listen and try to understand!
Peter said to him, “Explain this illustration to us.”
Don’t you know that whatever goes into the mouth goes into the stomach and then into a toilet?
Why don’t you understand that I wasn’t talking to you about bread? Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”
Don’t you understand yet? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the five thousand and how many baskets you filled?
(They didn’t understand what had happened with the loaves of bread. Instead, their minds were closed.)
Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand? Don’t you know that whatever goes into a person from the outside can’t make him unclean?
The disciples didn’t understand what he meant and were afraid to ask him.
But they didn’t understand any of this. What he said was a mystery to them, and they didn’t know what he meant.
Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
They didn’t know what he meant. The meaning was hidden from them so that they didn’t understand it. Besides, they were afraid to ask him about what he had said.
By now you should be teachers. Instead, you still need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word. You need milk, not solid food.
