Then Jesus called the crowd to him and said to them, "Listen and understand!

"Do you understand these things?" Jesus asked them. "Yes," they answered.

Don't you understand yet? Don't you remember when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand men? How many baskets did you fill?

How is it that you don't understand that I was not talking to you about bread? Guard yourselves from the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

They complain about me. They say, "Who does that man think he's teaching? Who needs his message? It's only good for babies that have just stopped nursing!

He is trying to teach us letter by letter, line by line, lesson by lesson."

because they had not understood the real meaning of the feeding of the five thousand; their minds could not grasp it.

"You are no more intelligent than the others," Jesus said to them. "Don't you understand? Nothing that goes into you from the outside can really make you unclean,

Jesus knew what they were saying, so he asked them, "Why are you discussing about not having any bread? Don't you know or understand yet? Are your minds so dull?

You have eyes---can't you see? You have ears---can't you hear? Don't you remember

But they did not understand what this teaching meant, and they were afraid to ask him.

But the disciples did not know what this meant. It had been hidden from them so that they could not understand it, and they were afraid to ask him about the matter.

But the disciples did not understand any of these things; the meaning of the words was hidden from them, and they did not know what Jesus was talking about.

Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

There has been enough time for you to be teachers---yet you still need someone to teach you the first lessons of God's message. Instead of eating solid food, you still have to drink milk.