So Jesus said, “Do you also still not understand?
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So Jesus said, “Do you also still not understand?
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Then sayde Iesus: are ye yet with oute vnderstondinge?
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Then said Iesus, Are ye yet without vnderstanding?
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Passages linked to Matthew 15:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Matthew 16:9 Don’t you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
- Mark 7:18 He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him,
- Mark 9:32 But they didn’t understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.
- Matthew 15:10 He summoned the multitude, and said to them, “Hear, and understand.
- Luke 9:45 But they didn’t understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.
- Isaiah 28:9-10 Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts? For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.
- Matthew 13:51 Jesus said to them, “Have you understood all these things?” They answered him, “Yes, Lord.”
- Matthew 16:11 How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
- Mark 6:52 for they hadn’t understood about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.
- Mark 8:17-18 Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, “Why do you reason that it’s because you have no bread? Don’t you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened? Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?
- Luke 18:34 They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn’t understand the things that were said.
- Luke 24:45 Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.
- Hebrews 5:12 For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 16 And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without…
16 And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?
Ver. 16. Do not ye yet understand?] What! not at these years, and after so long standing? Will ye stand till ye wax sour again, and not give yourselves wholly to these things, that your profiting may appear to all? {a} Is it not a shame to have no more wit at sixty years old than at six? to be "always learning, yet never come to the knowledge of the truth?" God expects a proportion of skill and holiness according to the time and means men have had, Heb 5:12.
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{a} 1Ti 4:15. ’ Ακμην adhuc pro κατα ακμην, at these years; now that you are at full stature, and in your full vigour?
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Jesus said,.... As wondering at, and as being…
And Jesus said,.... As wondering at, and as being displeased with, and as reproving them for their dulness and ignorance:
are ye also yet without understanding? you, my disciples, as well as the Scribes and Pharisees; you, who have been with me so long, who have heard so many discourses from me, who for so long a time have been instructed by me, both in private, and in public; and yet do not understand what is so plain and easy, that has nothing of difficulty in it, but what might easily be accounted for.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 16. Are ye also yet without understanding?] The…
Verse 16. Are ye also yet without understanding?] The word ακμη, which we translate yet, should be here rendered still: Are ye still void of understanding? and the word is used in this sense by several Greek writers. The authorities which have induced me to prefer this translation may be seen in Kypke.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?--Slowness…
And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?--Slowness of spiritual apprehension in His genuine disciples grieves the Saviour: from others He expects no better (Mat 13:11).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 16. Are ye — My own disciples. Also —…
16. Are ye — My own disciples. Also — That is, as well as the Pharisees. Yet — After all my example and instruction. Without understanding — Of the difference between physical uncleanness and moral defilement. The disciples have plainly been permitted by our Lord to neglect these washings. They have been doubtless many a time told that washing the body does not wash the soul. Still, when the precept in its avowed power is brought into direct collision with the doctrines of the teachers, they become a little confused, and need to have it stated outright and in full terms by the Master.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 16. without understanding] Cp. the “spiritual understanding,” Col_1:9, and…
16. without understanding] Cp. the “spiritual understanding,” Col_1:9, and “knowledge in the mystery of Christ,” Eph_3:4.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (16) Are ye also yet without understanding?—The pronoun is…
(16) Are ye also yet without understanding?—The pronoun is emphatic: “Ye, My disciples, who have heard from My lips the spiritual nature of My kingdom, are ye too, like the Pharisees, still such backward scholars?”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Are ye also yet without understanding? Even yet; akmhn…
Are ye also yet without understanding? Even yet; akmhn : adhuc. In spite of all that has passed my teaching, my life, my miracles do you not understand in what real purity consists? Often had Jesus to complain of the dulness of his disciples" intelligence, the slow appreciation of his meaning, the indifference to the spiritual side of his acts and doctrine. Up to the very last they failed to apprehend his mission; nor was it till the Day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit was poured upon them, that they really and in fulness understood the Lord"s teaching and their own duties and powers.
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B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 16, 17. Is cast out. What is eaten passes…
16, 17. Is cast out. What is eaten passes through the body and passes away. It does not defile the soul.
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