Matthew 15:16

Jesus gently rebukes the disciples for still not understanding. It matters because it shows that spiritual understanding requires growth and does not come automatically.

Cross-references · 13

• Matt 16:9Don’t you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
• Mark 9:32But they didn’t understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.
• Mark 7:18He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him,
• Matt 15:10He summoned the multitude, and said to them, “Hear, and understand.
• Luke 9:45But they didn’t understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.
• Heb 5:12For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.
• Mark 6:52for they hadn’t understood about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.
• Luke 24:45Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.
• Matt 13:51Jesus said to them, “Have you understood all these things?” They answered him, “Yes, Lord.”
• Luke 18:34They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn’t understand the things that were said.
• Isa 28:9–10Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?
• Mark 8:17–18Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, “Why do you reason that it’s because you have no bread? Don’t you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened?
• Matt 16:11How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

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