Quotes about Understanding
He who has ears, let him hear.”
— Matthew 13:9
Then the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why do You speak to the people in parables?”
— Matthew 13:10
He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.
— Matthew 13:11
This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.’
— Matthew 13:13
In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
— Matthew 13:14
For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’
— Matthew 13:15
But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.
— Matthew 13:16
For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.
— Matthew 13:17
Consider, then, the parable of the sower:
— Matthew 13:18
When anyone hears the message of the kingdom but does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path.
— Matthew 13:19
But the seed sown on good soil is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and produces a crop—a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.”
— Matthew 13:23
Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.
— Matthew 13:34