“Don’t you understand yet?” Jesus asked.
Do you understand all these things?” “Yes,” they said, “we do.”
Then Jesus called to the crowd to come and hear. “Listen,” he said, “and try to understand.
Then Peter said to Jesus, “Explain to us the parable that says people aren’t defiled by what they eat.”
“Anything you eat passes through the stomach and then goes into the sewer.
Why can’t you understand that I’m not talking about bread? So again I say, ‘Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.’”
Don’t you understand even yet? Don’t you remember the 5,000 I fed with five loaves, and the baskets of leftovers you picked up?
for they still didn’t understand the significance of the miracle of the loaves. Their hearts were too hard to take it in.
“Don’t you understand either?” he asked. “Can’t you see that the food you put into your body cannot defile you?
They didn’t understand what he was saying, however, and they were afraid to ask him what he meant.
But they didn’t understand any of this. The significance of his words was hidden from them, and they failed to grasp what he was talking about.
Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
But they didn’t know what he meant. Its significance was hidden from them, so they couldn’t understand it, and they were afraid to ask him about it.
You have been believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things about God’s word. You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food.
