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The disciples did not understand any of this. Its meaning was hidden from them, and they did not know what he was talking about.
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Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.
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“You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and do you not understand these things?
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They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.
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Jesus used this figure of speech, but the Pharisees did not understand what he was telling them.
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But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”
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At first his disciples did not understand all this. Only after Jesus was glorified did they realize that these things had been written about him and that these things had been done to him.
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“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so they can neither see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, nor turn—and I would heal them.”
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Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”
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When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them.
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They kept asking, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’ ? We don’t understand what he is saying.”
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(They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.)
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Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.
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My companions saw the light, but they did not understand the voice of him who was speaking to me.
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“‘Go to this people and say, “You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.”
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For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’
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they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.
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there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God.
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I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.
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Again I ask: Did Israel not understand? First, Moses says, “I will make you envious by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation that has no understanding.”
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The Day Is Near
And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
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Rather, as it is written: “Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.”
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What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.
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The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
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For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands them; they utter mysteries by the Spirit.
