16 Bible Verses about Not Understanding Sayings

When Jesus knew it he said: "Weaklings in faith! Why are you arguing among yourselves, because you have no bread? "Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many large basketfuls you took up? "Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many large basketfuls you took up?read more.
"How is it that you do not perceive that I did not speak to you concerning bread? But beware off the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

But they did not understand his words, and were afraid to ask him the meaning.

But they did not understand this saying; it was hidden from them so that they perceived it not, and they were sore afraid to ask him about his saying.

But they understood none of these sayings. His words were a mystery to them, and they did not know what he meant.

His disciples did not understand these things at first; but when Jesus had been glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written concerning him, and what they had done to him.

For not yet had they understood the Scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.

"Whenever any one hears the message of the kingdom, and does not understand it, the Evil One comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart.

It is the same in all his letters when he speaks of these things. There are indeed some things in his letters hard to understand, which the ignorant and the shifty wrest, as also they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

"How is it that you do not perceive that I did not speak to you concerning bread? But beware off the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

They did not understand that he meant the Father,

Now Jesus had been speaking concerning his death, but they thought that he was talking about natural sleep.

"Now my companions, though they beheld the light, did not hear the words of Him who spoke to me.

For if you in your spirit bless God, how shall he who fills the place of the unlearned say the Amen to your thanksgiving, when he does not know what you are talking about?

Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was talking about; so he said to them again.

But they did not understand the words that he spoke to them.

"How is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot listen to my message.