Jesus gave them this figure of speech, but they did not understand what he was telling them.

耶稣将这比喻告诉他们，但他们不明白所说的是什么意思。

耶稣把这比方告诉他们，但他们不明白他所说的是什么。

耶稣把这比方告诉他们，但他们不明白他所说的是什么。

耶稣讲了这个比喻，但听的人都不明白祂的意思。

耶稣对他们说了这个譬喻，他们却不明白他所说的是什么。

耶稣对他们说了这个比喻，他们却不明白他说的是什么。

耶穌將這比喻告訴他們，但他們不明白所說的是甚麼意思。

耶穌把這比方告訴他們，但他們不明白他所說的是甚麼。

耶穌把這比方告訴他們，但他們不明白他所說的是甚麼。

耶穌講了這個比喻，但聽的人都不明白祂的意思。

耶穌對他們說了這個譬喻，他們卻不明白他所說的是甚麼。

耶穌將這隱喻對他們說，那些人卻不明白他對他們講的是甚麼。

耶穌對他們說了這個比喻，他們卻不明白他說的是什麼。

耶穌以斯喻語之、眾不知其云何、○

耶穌設此譬、人不知其云何、

耶穌以此喻告眾、而眾不解其云何、○

耶穌設此譬喻、而若輩不知其旨、

Jesus used this figure of speech, but the Pharisees did not understand what he was telling them.

Jesus told this story. But the Pharisees didn’t understand what he was telling them.

This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

Those who heard Jesus use this illustration didn’t understand what he meant,

Jesus told them this figure of speech, but they did not understand what the things which He was saying to them meant.

Jesus used this illustration, but they did not understand the things which He spoke to them.

This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.

Jesus gave them this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.

This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.

Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

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

These dogs have fierce appetites; they never have enough. And they are shepherds who have no discernment; all of them turn to their own way, every last one for his own profit.

The evil do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand everything.

And he replied: Go! Say to these people: Keep listening, but do not understand; keep looking, but do not perceive.Make the minds of these people dull; deafen their ears and blind their eyes; otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, understand with their minds, turn back, and be healed.

Many will be purified, cleansed, and refined, but the wicked will act wickedly; none of the wicked will understand, but those who have insight will understand.

“ Have you understood all these things?” They answered him,“ Yes.”

“ I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. A time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.

Our ancestors in Egypt did not grasp the significance of your wondrous works or remember your many acts of faithful love; instead, they rebelled by the sea— the Red Sea.

That is why I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see, and hearing they do not listen or understand.Isaiah’s prophecy is fulfilled in them, which says: You will listen and listen, but never understand; you will look and look, but never perceive.

They do not know or understand; they wander in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

They did not know he was speaking to them about the Father.

Why don’t you understand what I say? Because you cannot listen to my word.

Therefore, when many of his disciples heard this, they said,“ This teaching is hard. Who can accept it?”

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know the true one. We are in the true one— that is, in his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

What is this remark he made:‘ You will look for me, and you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come’?”

But the person without the Spirit does not receive what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.

At that, the Jews argued among themselves,“ How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”