And Jesus said, Are you also still without understanding?
Jesus said to them, Have you understood all these things? They said to Him, Yes, Lord.
And He called the crowd and said to them, Hear and understand.
Then Peter answered and said to Him, Explain this parable to us.
Do you not yet understand that whatever enters in at the mouth goes into the belly, and is cast out into the waste-bowl?
How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you about loaves, but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
Do you not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many hand baskets you took up;
For they did not understand the miracle of the loaves, for their hearts were hardened.
And He said to them, Are you also without understanding? Do you not perceive that whatever enters into the man from outside cannot defile him,
But they did not understand that saying and were afraid to ask Him.
And they did not understand any of these things. And this saying was hidden from them, nor did they know the things which were spoken.
And He opened their mind to understand the Scriptures.
But they did not understand this, and it was hidden from them so that they did not perceive it. And they feared to ask Him of this word.
For indeed because of the time, you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again what are the first principles of the oracles of God. And you have become in need of milk, and not of solid food.