Quotes about Understanding
“Not everyone can accept this word,” He replied, “but only those to whom it has been given.
- Matthew 19:11
“You do not know what you are asking,” Jesus replied. “Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?” “We can,” the brothers answered.
- Matthew 20:22
“Lord,” they answered, “let our eyes be opened.”
- Matthew 20:33
When the chief priests and Pharisees heard His parables, they knew that Jesus was speaking about them.
- Matthew 21:45
No one was able to answer a word, and from that day on no one dared to question Him any further.
- Matthew 22:46
Jesus replied, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need?
- Mark 2:25
But Jesus replied, “Who are My mother and My brothers?”
- Mark 3:33
And He taught them many things in parables, and in His teaching He said,
- Mark 4:2
Then Jesus said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
- Mark 4:9
As soon as Jesus was alone with the Twelve and those around Him, they asked Him about the parable.
- Mark 4:10
He replied, “The mystery of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those on the outside everything is expressed in parables,
- Mark 4:11
so that, ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven.’”
- Mark 4:12