Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message.
I have come in My Father’s name, and you have not received Me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will recei
If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.
because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
For this reason they were unable to believe. For again, Isaiah says:
Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD comprehend fully.
You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
On hearing it, many of His disciples said, “This is a difficult teaching. Who can accept it?”
They did not understand that He was telling them about the Father.
To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word
They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot u
And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceivin
Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are
But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD or understand His plan, for He has gathered them like sheaves to the thres
There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.