“Are you still so dull?” Jesus asked them.
“Have you understood all these things?” Jesus asked. “Yes,” they replied.
Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand.
Peter said, “Explain the parable to us.”
“Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body?
How is it you don’t understand that I was not talking to you about bread? But be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Do you still not understand? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?
for they had not understood about the loaves; their hearts were hardened.
“Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them?
But they did not understand what he meant and were afraid to ask him about it.
The disciples did not understand any of this. Its meaning was hidden from them, and they did not know what he was talking about.
Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.
But they did not understand what this meant. It was hidden from them, so that they did not grasp it, and they were afraid to ask him about it.
In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!
