Quotes About Understanding

Assuming He was in their company, they traveled on for a day before they began to look for Him among their relatives and friends.

Finally, after three days they found Him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

And all who heard Him were astounded at His understanding and His answers.

When His parents saw Him, they were astonished. “Child, why have You done this to us?” His mother asked. “Your father and I have been anxiously searching for You.”

But they did not understand the statement He was making to them.

Knowing what they were thinking, Jesus replied, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?

He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will tear the new garment as well, and the patch from the new will not match the old.

Jesus replied, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?

But to those of you who will listen, I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.

Jesus also told them a parable: “Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit?

I will show you what he is like who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them:

“To what, then, can I compare the men of this generation? What are they like?

But wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”

But Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to tell you.” “Tell me, Teacher,” he said.

Still other seed fell on good soil, where it sprang up and produced a crop—a hundredfold.” As Jesus said this, He called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Then His disciples asked Him what this parable meant.

He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, ëthough seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.í

Now this is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.

Pay attention, therefore, to how you listen. Whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.”

One day as Jesus was praying in private and the disciples were with Him, He questioned them: “Who do the crowds say I am?”

“But what about you?” Jesus asked. “Who do you say I am?” Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”

But they did not understand this statement. It was veiled from them so that they could not comprehend it, and they were afraid to ask Him about it.