John 10:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

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  • Ps 82:5 : 5 They neither know nor understand. They stumble around in the dark, while all the foundations of the earth crumble.
  • Ps 106:7 : 7 Our ancestors in Egypt failed to appreciate your miraculous deeds, they failed to remember your many acts of loyal love, and they rebelled at the sea, by the Red Sea.
  • Prov 28:5 : 5 Evil people do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand it all.
  • Isa 6:9-9 : 9 He said,“Go and tell these people:‘Listen continually, but don’t understand! Look continually, but don’t perceive!’ 10 Make the hearts of these people calloused; make their ears deaf and their eyes blind! Otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, their hearts might understand and they might repent and be healed.”
  • Isa 56:11 : 11 The dogs have big appetites; they are never full. They are shepherds who have no understanding; they all go their own way, each one looking for monetary gain.
  • Dan 12:10 : 10 Many will be purified, made clean, and refined, but the wicked will go on being wicked. None of the wicked will understand, though the wise will understand.
  • Matt 13:13-14 : 13 For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand. 14 And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:‘You will listen carefully yet will never understand, you will look closely yet will never comprehend.
  • Matt 13:51 : 51 “Have you understood all these things?” They replied,“Yes.”
  • John 16:25 : 25 “I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; a time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
  • 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.
  • John 6:52 : 52 Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another,“How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
  • John 6:60 : 60 Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said,“This is a difficult saying! Who can understand it?”
  • John 7:36 : 36 What did he mean by saying,‘You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come’?”
  • John 8:27 : 27 (They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)
  • John 8:43 : 43 Why don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.

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