Mark 6:52

New Living Translation

for they still didn’t understand the significance of the miracle of the loaves. Their hearts were too hard to take it in.

Cross References

Isaiah 63:17

Lord, why have you allowed us to turn from your path? Why have you given us stubborn hearts so we no longer fear you? Return and help us, for we are your servants, the tribes that are your special possession.

Mark 16:14

Still later he appeared to the eleven disciples as they were eating together. He rebuked them for their stubborn unbelief because they refused to believe those who had seen him after he had been raised from the dead.

Mark 3:5

He looked around at them angrily and was deeply saddened by their hard hearts. Then he said to the man, “Hold out your hand.” So the man held out his hand, and it was restored!

Mark 7:18

“Don’t you understand either?” he asked. “Can’t you see that the food you put into your body cannot defile you?

Luke 24:25

Then Jesus said to them, “You foolish people! You find it so hard to believe all that the prophets wrote in the Scriptures.

John 12:40

“The Lord has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts— so that their eyes cannot see, and their hearts cannot understand, and they cannot turn to me and have me heal them.”

Romans 11:7

So this is the situation: Most of the people of Israel have not found the favor of God they are looking for so earnestly. A few have—the ones God has chosen—but the hearts of the rest were hardened.