John 10:6

Authorized King James Version (1611)

This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.

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  • Ps 82:5 : 5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
  • Ps 106:7 : 7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked [him] at the sea, [even] at the Red sea.
  • Prov 28:5 : 5 ¶ Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all [things].
  • Isa 6:9-9 : 9 ¶ And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
  • Isa 56:11 : 11 Yea, [they are] greedy dogs [which] can never have enough, and they [are] shepherds [that] cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
  • Dan 12:10 : 10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
  • Matt 13:13-14 : 13 ‹Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.› 14 ‹And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:›
  • Matt 13:51 : 51 Jesus saith unto them, ‹Have ye understood all these things?› They say unto him, Yea, Lord.
  • John 16:25 : 25 ‹These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.›
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.
  • 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, [even] in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
  • John 6:52 : 52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us [his] flesh to eat?
  • John 6:60 : 60 ¶ Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard [this], said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
  • John 7:36 : 36 What [manner of] saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find [me]: and where I am, [thither] ye cannot come?
  • John 8:27 : 27 They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.
  • John 8:43 : 43 ‹Why do ye not understand my speech?› [even] ‹because ye cannot hear my word.›

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    27 They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.

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    45 But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.

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    50 And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.

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    13 ‹Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.›

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    21 And he said unto them, ‹How is it that ye do not understand?›

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    9 And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?

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    3 And he spake this parable unto them, saying,

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    6 And they could not answer him again to these things.

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