And he said, “Are you also still without understanding?
Do you not yet perceive? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?
But they did not understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.
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,
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 he called the people to him and said to them, “Hear and understand:
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food,
Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,
But they understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what was said.
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?
for they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.
How is it that you fail to understand that I did not speak about bread? Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
“Have you understood all these things?” They said to him, “Yes.”
“To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast? For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.”
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