The evil do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand everything.
John 10:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Jesus gave them this figure of speech, but they did not understand what he was telling them. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Jesus used this parable (illustration) with them, but they did not understand what He was talking about. American Standard Version (1901) This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them. Common English Bible Those who heard Jesus use this analogy didn’t understand what he was saying. Catholic Public Domain Version Jesus spoke this proverb to them. But they did not understand what he was saying to them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version This proverb Jesus spoke to them. But they understood not what he spoke to them. |
The evil do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand everything.
These dogs have fierce appetites; they never have enough. And they are shepherds who have no discernment; all of them turn to their own way, every last one for his own profit.
Many will be purified, cleansed, and refined, but the wicked will act wickedly; none of the wicked will understand, but those who have insight will understand.
Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables, and he did not tell them anything without a parable,
He did not speak to them without a parable. Privately, however, he explained everything to his own disciples.
‘I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. A time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.
His disciples said, ‘Look, now you’re speaking plainly and not using any figurative language.
At that, the Jews argued among themselves, ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat? ’
Therefore, when many of his disciples heard this, they said, ‘This teaching is hard. Who can accept it? ’
What is this remark he made: “You will look for me, and you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come” ? ’
Why don’t you understand what I say? Because you cannot listen to my word.
But the person without the Spirit does not receive what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.
It has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to its own vomit, , and, ‘A washed sow returns to wallowing in the mud.’
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know the true one. We are in the true one #– #that is, in his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.