22 Bible Verses about Dullness

Vain pretenders! You know how to read the aspect of earth and sky. How is it you cannot read this present time?

How is it you do not understand me when I speak? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my words.

There is not one who is really wise, nor one who is a diligent seeker after God.

Concerning Him we have much to say, and much that it would be difficult to make clear to you, since you have become so dull of apprehension.

For this people's mind is stupefied, their hearing has become dull, and their eyes they have closed; to prevent their ever seeing with their eyes, or hearing with their ears, or understanding with their minds, and turning back, so that I might heal them.'

Concerning Him we have much to say, and much that it would be difficult to make clear to you, since you have become so dull of apprehension. For although, considering the long time you have been believers, you ought now to be teachers of others, you really need some one to teach you over again the very rudiments of the truths of God, and you have come to require milk instead of solid food. By people who live on milk I mean those who are imperfectly acquainted with the teaching concerning righteousness.read more.
Such persons are mere babes. But solid food is for adults--that is, for those who through constant practice have their spiritual faculties carefully trained to distinguish good from evil.

For this people's mind has grown callous, their hearing has become dull, and their eyes they have closed; to prevent their ever seeing with their eyes, or hearing with their ears, or understanding with their minds, and turning back, so that I might cure them.'

I speak to them in figurative language for this reason, that while looking they do not see, and while hearing they neither hear nor understand.

faithless to their promises, without natural affection, without human pity.

and are always learning something new, and yet are never able to arrive at real knowledge of the truth.

"Are even you," He answered, "still without intellingence?

How is it you do not understand that it was not about bread that I spoke to you? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

But they did not understand His meaning: it was veiled from them that they might not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask Him about it.

Nothing of this did they understand. The words were a mystery to them, nor could they see what He meant.

"O dull-witted men," He replied, "with minds so slow to believe all that the Prophets have spoken!

"Have I been so long among you," Jesus answered, "and yet you, Philip, do not know me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can *you* ask me, 'Cause us to see the Father'?

"It has taken forty-six years," replied the Jews, "to build this Sanctuary, and will you rebuild it in three days?"

"How is it possible," Nicodemus asked, "for a man to be born when he is old? Can he a second time enter his mother's womb and be born?"

"Sir," she said, "you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; so where can you get the living water from?

"I have food to eat," He replied, "of which you do not know." So the disciples began questioning one another. "Can it be," they said, "that some one has brought Him something to eat?"

"Master," said the disciples, "if he is asleep he will recover." Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought He referred to the rest taken in ordinary sleep.

I am the living bread come down out of Heaven. If a man eats this bread, he shall live for ever. Moreover the bread which I will give is my flesh given for the life of the world." This led to an angry debate among the Jews. "How can this man," they argued, "give us his flesh to eat?"