¹⁶ “Don’t you understand yet?” Jesus asked.

⁹ Don’t you understand even yet? Don’t you remember the 5,000 I fed with five loaves, and the baskets of leftovers you picked up?

³² They didn’t understand what he was saying, however, and they were afraid to ask him what he meant.

¹⁸ “Don’t you understand either?” he asked. “Can’t you see that the food you put into your body cannot defile you?

¹⁰ Then Jesus called to the crowd to come and hear. “Listen,” he said, “and try to understand.

¹² You have been believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things about God’s word.^[a] You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food.

⁴⁵ Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.

³⁴ But they didn’t understand any of this. The significance of his words was hidden from them, and they failed to grasp what he was talking about.

⁴⁵ But they didn’t know what he meant. Its significance was hidden from them, so they couldn’t understand it, and they were afraid to ask him about it.

¹⁷ Jesus knew what they were saying, so he said, “Why are you arguing about having no bread? Don’t you know or understand even yet? Are your hearts too hard to take it in? ¹⁸ ‘You have eyes—can’t you see? You have ears—can’t you hear?’^[a] Don’t you remember anything at all?