¹⁸ They said therefore, “What is this that He says, ‘A little while’? We do not ^[a]know what He is saying.”

²⁵ Then He said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

Spiritual Immaturity

¹² For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the ^[a]oracles of God; and you have come to need ^(A)milk and not solid food.

^9 (A)Do you not yet understand, or remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up? ^10 (B)Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many large baskets you took up? ¹¹ How is it you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread?—but to beware of the ^[a]leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”