Quotes About Understanding

“I will also ask you one question,” Jesus replied, “and if you answer Me, I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things.

So they answered, “We do not know.” And Jesus replied, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.

Once again, Jesus spoke to them in parables:

And when they heard this, they were amazed. So they left Him and went away.

Jesus answered, “You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.

When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.

One of them, an expert in the law, tested Him with a question:

Jesus said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him ëLordí? For he says:

No one was able to answer a word, and from that day on no one dared to question Him any further.

You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes it sacred?

So when you see standing in the holy place ëthe abomination of desolation,í described by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand),

See, I have told you in advance.

But he replied, ëTruly I tell you, I do not know you.í

The people were astonished at His teaching, because He taught as one who had authority, and not as the scribes.

But some of the scribes were sitting there and thinking in their hearts,

At once Jesus knew in His spirit that they were thinking this way within themselves. “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?” He asked.

No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the new piece will pull away from the old, and a worse tear will result.

Jesus replied, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need?

But He warned them sternly not to make Him known.

When His family heard about this, they went out to take custody of Him, saying, “He is out of His mind.”

And He taught them many things in parables, and in His teaching He said,

Then Jesus said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

As soon as Jesus was alone with the Twelve and those around Him, they asked Him about the parable.

He replied, “The mystery of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those on the outside everything is expressed in parables,