22 Bible Verses about Dullness

You hypocrites, you know how to decipher the look of earth and sky; how is it you cannot decipher the meaning of this era?

Why do you not understand my speech? Because you are unable to listen to what I am saying.

no one understands, no one seeks for God.

On this point I have a great deal to say, which it is hard to make intelligible to you. For you have grown dull of hearing.

For the heart of this people is obtuse, their ears are heavy of hearing, their eyes they have closed, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they understand with their heart and turn again, and I cure them.

On this point I have a great deal to say, which it is hard to make intelligible to you. For you have grown dull of hearing. Though by this time you should be teaching other people, you still need someone to teach you once more the rudimentary principles of the divine revelation. You are in need of milk, not of solid food. (For anyone who is fed on milk is unskilled in moral truth; he is a mere babe.read more.
Whereas solid food is for the mature, for those who have their faculties trained by exercise to distinguish good and evil.)

For the heart at this people is obtuse, their ears are heavy at hearing, their eyes they have closed, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they understand with their heart and turn again, and I cure them.

This is why I speak to them in parables, because for all their seeing they do not see and for all their hearing they do not hear or understand.

devoid of conscience, false to their word, callous, merciless;

who are always curious to learn and never able to attain the knowledge of the Truth.

He said, "And are you totally ignorant?

Why do you not see that I was not speaking to you about bread? No, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

But they did not understand this saying ??indeed it was kept a secret from them, to prevent them from fathoming it ??and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

However, they did not understand a word of this; indeed the saying was hidden from them, and they did not know what he meant.

He said to them, "O foolish men, with hearts so slow to believe, after all the prophets have declared!

Jesus said to him, "Philip, have I been with you all this time, and yet you do not understand me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. What do you mean by saying, 'Let us see the Father'?

"This sanctuary took forty-six years to build," the Jews retorted, "and you are going to raise it up in three days!"

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb over again and be born?"

"Sir," said the woman, "you have nothing to draw water with, and it is a deep well; where do you get your 'living' water?

But he said to them, "I have food, of which you know nothing." So the disciples asked each other, "Can anyone have brought him something to eat?"

"Lord," said the disciples, "if he has fallen asleep, he will get better." Jesus, however, had been speaking of his death; but as they imagined he meant natural sleep,

I am the living bread which has come down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and more, the bread I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world." The Jews then wrangled with one another, saying, "How can he give us his flesh to eat?"