Mark 6:52

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For it was not clear to them about the bread; but their hearts were hard.

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  • Mark 3:5 : 5 And looking round on them he was angry, being sad because of their hard hearts; and he said to the man, Put out your hand. And he put it out, and his hand was made well.
  • Mark 8:17-21 : 17 And Jesus, hearing it, said to them, Why are you reasoning among yourselves because you have no bread? do you still not see, and is it still not clear to you? are your hearts so hard? 18 Having eyes, do you not see? and having ears, have you no hearing? and have you no memory? 19 When I made a division of the five cakes of bread among the five thousand, what number of baskets full of broken bits did you take up? They said to him, Twelve. 20 And when the seven among the four thousand, what number of baskets full of broken bits did you take up? And they said to him, Seven. 21 And he said to them, Is it still not clear to you?
  • Mark 16:14 : 14 And later he was seen by the eleven themselves while they were taking food; and he said sharp words to them because they had no faith and their hearts were hard, and because they had no belief in those who had seen him after he had come back from the dead.
  • Luke 24:25 : 25 And he said, O foolish men! how slow you are to give belief to what the prophets have said.
  • Rom 11:7 : 7 What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.
  • Mark 7:18 : 18 And he said to them, Have even you so little wisdom? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside is not able to make him unclean,
  • Isa 63:17 : 17 O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.
  • Matt 16:9-9 : 9 Do you still not see, or keep in mind the five cakes of bread of the five thousand, and the number of baskets you took up? 10 Or the seven cakes of bread of the four thousand, and the number of baskets you took up? 11 How is it that you do not see that I was not talking to you about bread, but about keeping away from the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?

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  • Mark 8:16-18
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    16 And they said to one another, We have no bread.

    17 And Jesus, hearing it, said to them, Why are you reasoning among yourselves because you have no bread? do you still not see, and is it still not clear to you? are your hearts so hard?

    18 Having eyes, do you not see? and having ears, have you no hearing? and have you no memory?

  • Mark 6:51
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    51 And he went to them into the boat, and the wind went down, and they were full of wonder in themselves;

  • Mark 6:53
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    53 And when they had gone across, they came to Gennesaret, and got their boat to land.

  • John 12:39-40
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    39 For this reason they were unable to have belief, because Isaiah said again,

    40 He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well.

  • Matt 16:7-12
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    7 And they were reasoning among themselves, saying, We took no bread.

    8 And Jesus, seeing it, said, O you of little faith, why are you reasoning among yourselves, because you have no bread?

    9 Do you still not see, or keep in mind the five cakes of bread of the five thousand, and the number of baskets you took up?

    10 Or the seven cakes of bread of the four thousand, and the number of baskets you took up?

    11 How is it that you do not see that I was not talking to you about bread, but about keeping away from the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?

    12 Then they saw that it was not the leaven of bread which he had in mind, but the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

  • Matt 16:5
    74%

    5 And when the disciples came to the other side they had not taken thought to get bread.

  • Mark 8:13-14
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    13 And he went away from them, and again got into the boat and went across to the other side.

    14 And they had taken no thought to get bread; and they had only one cake of bread with them in the boat.

  • Mark 8:21
    73%

    21 And he said to them, Is it still not clear to you?

  • Isa 44:18
    72%

    18 They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.

  • John 6:26
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    26 Jesus, answering them, said, Truly I say to you, You come after me, not because you saw signs, but because you were given the bread and had enough.

  • Mark 4:12
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    12 So that seeing they may see, and it will not be clear to them; and hearing it, they will not get the sense; for fear that they may be turned again to me and have forgiveness.

  • 1 Sam 6:6
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    6 Why do you make your hearts hard, like the hearts of Pharaoh and the Egyptians? When he had made sport of them, did they not let the people go, and they went away?

  • Mark 6:35-36
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    35 And at the end of the day, his disciples came to him and said, This place is waste land, and it is late:

    36 Send them away, so that they may go into the country and small towns round about, and get some food for themselves.

  • John 10:6
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    6 In this Jesus was teaching them in the form of a story: but what he said was not clear to them.

  • Luke 2:50
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    50 And his words seemed strange to them.

  • Matt 13:15
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    15 For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

  • Luke 24:16
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    16 But their eyes were not open that they might have knowledge of him.

  • Luke 9:45
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    45 But this saying was not clear to them and its sense was kept secret from them so that they were not able to see it: and they had fear of questioning him about it.

  • John 6:17
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    17 And they took a boat and went across the sea in the direction of Capernaum. By then it was dark and still Jesus had not come to them.

  • John 6:22
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    22 The day after, the people who were on the other side of the sea saw that only one small boat had been there, that Jesus had not gone in that boat with the disciples, but that the disciples had gone away by themselves.

  • Mark 6:48-49
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    48 And seeing that they had trouble in getting their boat through the water, because the wind was against them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea; and he would have gone past them;

    49 But they, when they saw him walking on the sea, took him for a spirit, and gave a loud cry:

  • John 12:37
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    37 But though he had done such a number of signs before them, they still had no belief in him:

  • Mark 6:38
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    38 And he said to them, How much bread have you? go and see. And when they had seen, they said, Five cakes of bread and two fishes.

  • Mark 9:32
    69%

    32 But the saying was not clear to them, and they were in fear of questioning him about it.

  • Ps 78:32
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    32 For all this they went on sinning even more, and had no faith in his great wonders.

  • John 6:24
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    24 So when the people saw that Jesus was not there, or his disciples, they got into those boats and went over to Capernaum looking for Jesus.

  • Matt 15:16
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    16 And he said, Are you, like them, still without wisdom?

  • Matt 15:33
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    33 And the disciples say to him, How may we get enough bread in a waste place, to give food to such a number of people?

  • Matt 13:13
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    13 For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them.

  • Isa 6:10
    69%

    10 Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.

  • John 6:60
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    60 Then, hearing this, a number of his disciples said, This is a hard saying; who is able to take in such teaching?

  • Mark 9:6
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    6 Because he was not certain what to say, for they were in great fear.

  • Mark 6:31-32
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    69%

    31 And he said to them, Come away by yourselves to a quiet place, and take a rest for a time. Because there were a great number coming and going, and they had no time even for food.

    32 And they went away in the boat to a waste place by themselves.

  • John 8:27
    69%

    27 They did not see that his words were about the Father.

  • 2 Kgs 17:14
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    14 And they did not give ear, but became stiff-necked, like their fathers who had no faith in the Lord their God.

  • Neh 9:16
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    16 But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders,

  • Mark 2:8
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    8 And Jesus, having knowledge in his spirit of their thoughts, said to them, Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts?

  • Hos 13:6
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    6 When I gave them food they were full, and their hearts were full of pride, and they did not keep me in mind.