¹⁷ But Jesus, being aware of it, said to them, “Why do you reason because you have no bread? ^(A)Do you not yet perceive nor understand? Is your heart ^[a]still hardened?

⁵² For ^(A)they had not understood about the loaves, because their ^(B)heart was hardened.

¹¹ of whom ^(A)we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become ^(B)dull of hearing.

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 ^(C)milk and not solid food.

⁵ And when He had looked around at them with anger, being grieved by the ^(A)hardness of their hearts, He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored ^[a]as whole as the other.

⁸ But Jesus, being aware of it, said to them, “O you of little faith, why do you reason among yourselves because you ^[a]have brought no bread? ^9 (A)Do you not yet understand, or remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up?