Quotes About Understanding

One of them, named Cleopas, asked Him, “Are You the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in recent days?”

Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, how slow are your hearts to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was written in all the Scriptures about Himself.

Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Jesus—and He disappeared from their sight.

They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

“Why are you troubled,” Jesus asked, “and why do doubts arise in your hearts?

Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.

He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him.

No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Fatherís side, has made Him known.

“How do You know me?” Nathanael asked. Jesus replied, “Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree.”

Jesus said to him, “Do you believe just because I told you I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than these.”

“This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?”

But Jesus did not entrust Himself to them, for He knew them all.

He did not need any testimony about man, for He knew what was in a man.

“How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Can he enter his motherís womb a second time to be born?”

“How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.

“You are Israelís teacher,” said Jesus, “and you do not understand these things?

Truly, truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, and yet you people do not accept our testimony.

If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

He testifies to what He has seen and heard, yet no one accepts His testimony.

“I have no husband,” the woman replied. Jesus said to her, “You are correct to say that you have no husband.

“Sir,” the woman said, “I see that You are a prophet.

You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.

The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”