John 10:6

World English Bible (2000)

Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn't understand what he was telling them.

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  • Ps 82:5 : 5 They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
  • Ps 106:7 : 7 Our fathers didn't understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn't remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
  • Prov 28:5 : 5 Evil men don't understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.
  • Isa 6:9-9 : 9 He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed, but don't understand; and you see indeed, but don't perceive.' 10 Make the heart of this people fat. 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 turn again, and be healed."
  • Isa 56:11 : 11 Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can't understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
  • Dan 12:10 : 10 Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand.
  • Matt 13:13-14 : 13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand. 14 In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, 'By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:
  • Matt 13:51 : 51 Jesus said to them, "Have you understood all these things?" They answered him, "Yes, Lord."
  • John 16:25 : 25 I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
  • 1 John 5:20 : 20 We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
  • John 6:52 : 52 The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"
  • John 6:60 : 60 Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?"
  • John 7:36 : 36 What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come'?"
  • John 8:27 : 27 They didn't understand that he spoke to them about the Father.
  • John 8:43 : 43 Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word.

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    50 They didn't understand the saying which he spoke to them.

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  • Mark 4:10-13
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    9 Then his disciples asked him, "What does this parable mean?"

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  • John 16:18
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    18 They said therefore, "What is this that he says, 'A little while?' We don't know what he is saying."

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