“Have you understood all these things?” They said to him, “Yes.”
He did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.
When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path.
And he answered them, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
“Let these words sink into your ears: The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.” But they did not understand this saying, and it was concealed from them, so that they might not perceive it. And they were afraid to ask him about this saying.
And Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened? Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember?
And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him,
“So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
How is it that you fail to understand that I did not speak about bread? Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled?
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