John 10:6

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Jesus told the people this story, but they did not understand what it meant.

Cross References

Isaiah 56:11

They are like hungry dogs. They are never satisfied. The shepherds don’t know what they are doing. Like their sheep, they have all wandered away. They are greedy. All they want is to satisfy themselves.

Proverbs 28:5

The wicked don’t understand justice, but those who love the Lord understand it completely.

Psalm 82:5

“They don’t know what is happening. They don’t understand! They don’t know what they are doing. Their world is falling down around them!”

John 16:25

“I have told you these things, using words that hide the meaning. But the time will come when I will not use words like that to tell you things. I will speak to you in plain words about the Father.

Matthew 13:51

Then Jesus asked his followers, “Do you understand all these things?” They said, “Yes, we understand.”

Daniel 12:10

Many people will be made pure—they will make themselves clean. But evil people will continue to be evil. And those wicked people will not understand these things, but the wise people will understand them.

Psalm 106:7

Lord, our ancestors learned nothing from the miracles you did in Egypt. They forgot your kindness at the Red Sea and rebelled against you.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding. So now we can know the one who is true, and we live in that true God. We are in his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God, and he is eternal life.

1 Corinthians 2:14

People who do not have God’s Spirit do not accept the things that come from his Spirit. They think these things are foolish. They cannot understand them, because they can only be understood with the Spirit’s help.

John 8:43

You don’t understand the things I say, because you cannot accept my teaching.

John 8:27

They did not understand who he was talking about. He was telling them about the Father.

John 7:36

He says, ‘You will look for me, but you will not find me.’ He also says, ‘You cannot come where I am.’ What does this mean?”

John 6:60

When Jesus’ followers heard this, many of them said, “This teaching is hard. Who can accept it?”

John 6:52

Then the Jews began to argue among themselves. They said, “How can this man give us his body to eat?”

Matthew 13:34

Jesus used stories to tell all these things to the people. He always used stories to teach them.

Mark 4:34

He always used stories to teach them. But when he was alone with his followers, Jesus explained everything to them.

John 16:29

Then his followers said, “You are already speaking plainly to us. You are not using words that hide the meaning.

2 Peter 2:22

What they did is like these true sayings: “A dog vomits and goes back to what it threw up.” And, “After a pig is washed, it goes back and rolls in the mud again.”