Mark 7:18

“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

Jesus, 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?

They didn’t understand the saying which he spoke to them.

They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn’t understand the things that were said.

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again; and I would heal them.’

But 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.

As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;’ and, ‘Because I go to the Father’?”

and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are destroyed.

Depart! Depart! Go out from there! Touch no unclean thing! Go out from among her! Cleanse yourselves, you who carry Yahweh’s vessels.

“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand; but those who are wise will understand.

If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come.

Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn’t repent.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

They told him, “We only have here five loaves and two fish.”

He summoned the multitude, and said to them, “Hear, and understand.

So Jesus said, “Do you also still not understand?

Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”

But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.

There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

He asked them, “Don’t you understand yet?”

They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the “rising from the dead” meant.

If I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.

The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.

His disciples didn’t understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.

Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, “Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?’

I 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.

When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

For this people’s heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, then I would heal them.’

always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

“ ‘Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be guilty.

You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses. They are unclean to you.

O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance.

“Say now to the rebellious house, ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took its king, and its princes, and brought them to him to Babylon.

Then the angel who talked with me answered me, “Don’t you know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.”

Jesus said to them, “Have you understood all these things?” They answered him, “Yes, Lord.”

That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?

Jesus, perceiving it, said, “Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, ‘because you have brought no bread?’

Don’t you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

How 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.”

But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had sent them.

He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

for they hadn’t understood about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.”

His disciples answered him, “From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?”

He answered him, “Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me.”

But they didn’t understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

But when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not” (let the reader understand), “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains,

Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn’t believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

He said to them, “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things?

“There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?”

Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.

He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn’t understand.

He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,

But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

Therefore don’t be partakers with them.

About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.