John 10:6

John notes that Jesus' hearers did not understand this figure of speech. Their incomprehension reflects their spiritual blindness.

Cross-references · 16

• Isa 56:11Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
• Prov 28:5Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.
• Ps 82:5They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
• John 16:25I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
• Ps 106:7Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
• Isa 6:9–10He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand; and you see indeed, but don’t perceive.’
• Matt 13:51Jesus said to them, “Have you understood all these things?” They answered him, “Yes, Lord.”
• Dan 12:10Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand.
• Matt 13:13–14Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.
• 1 Cor 2:14Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
• 1 Jn 5:20We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
• John 6:60Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”
• John 7:36What is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me, and won’t find me; and where I am, you can’t come’?”
• John 6:52The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
• John 8:43Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.
• John 8:27They didn’t understand that he spoke to them about the Father.

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