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Mark 8:21

And He was saying to them, "Do you still not understand?"

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Hardening, Hardness of Heart;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bethsaida;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Mark, the Gospel of;   Messianic Secret;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Mss;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Discourse;   Ideas (Leading);   Sorrow, Man of Sorrows;   Understanding;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - 48 To Know, Perceive, Understand;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - How;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
And he said to them, “Don’t you understand yet?”
King James Version (1611)
And he said vnto them, How is it that ye doe not vnderstand?
King James Version
And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?
English Standard Version
And he said to them, "Do you not yet understand?"
New American Standard Bible
And He was saying to them, "Do you not yet understand?"
New Century Version
Then Jesus said to them, "Don't you understand yet?"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And He was saying to them, "Do you not yet understand?"
Legacy Standard Bible
And He was saying to them, "Do you not yet understand?"
Berean Standard Bible
Then He asked them, "Do you still not understand?"
Contemporary English Version
"Don't you know what I am talking about by now?" Jesus asked.
Complete Jewish Bible
He said to them, "And you still don't understand?"
Darby Translation
And he said to them, How do ye not yet understand?
Easy-to-Read Version
Then he said to them, "You remember these things I did, but you still don't understand?"
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then he saide vnto them, Howe is it that ye vnderstand not?
George Lamsa Translation
He said to them, How is it then that even yet you cannot understand?
Good News Translation
"And you still don't understand?" he asked them.
Lexham English Bible
And he said to them, "Do you not yet understand?"
Literal Translation
And He said to them, How do you not understand?
American Standard Version
And he said unto them, Do ye not yet understand?
Bible in Basic English
And he said to them, Is it still not clear to you?
Hebrew Names Version
He asked them, "Don't you understand, yet?"
International Standard Version
Then he said to them, "Don't you perceive yet?"Mark 6:17,52;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
He saith to them, How do you not yet understand ?
Murdock Translation
He saith to them: Why is it that, to this time, ye do not consider?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he sayde vnto them: Howe happeneth it, that ye do not vnderstande?
English Revised Version
And he said unto them, Do ye not yet understand?
World English Bible
He asked them, "Don't you understand, yet?"
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And they said, Seven. And he said to them, How is it, that ye do not understand?
Weymouth's New Testament
"Do you not yet understand?" He said.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei seien to hym, Seuene. And he seide to hem, Hou vndurstonden ye not yit?
Update Bible Version
And he said to them, Do you not yet understand?
Webster's Bible Translation
And he said to them, How is it that ye do not understand?
New English Translation
Then he said to them, "Do you still not understand?"
New King James Version
So He said to them, "How is it you do not understand?"
New Living Translation
"Don't you understand yet?" he asked them.
New Life Bible
Then He asked, "Why do you not understand yet?"
New Revised Standard
Then he said to them, "Do you not yet understand?"
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Not yet, do ye understand?
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to them: How do you not yet understand?
Revised Standard Version
And he said to them, "Do you not yet understand?"
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And he sayde vnto the: how is it yt ye vnderstonde not?
Young's Literal Translation
And he said to them, `How do ye not understand?'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he sayde vnto the: Why are ye then without vnderstondinge?
Mace New Testament (1729)
don't you yet, said he, comprehend my meaning?
THE MESSAGE
He said, "Do you still not get it?"
Simplified Cowboy Version
"Do you still not see and get it?" Jesus asked.

Contextual Overview

10Then immediately He got into the boat with His disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha. 11The Pharisees came out and began to argue [contentiously and debate] with Him, demanding from Him a sign from heaven, to test Him [because of their unbelief]. 12He groaned and sighed deeply in His spirit and said, "Why does this generation demand a sign? I assure you and most solemnly say to you, no sign will be given to this generation!" 13Leaving them, He again boarded the boat and left for the other side. 14Now the disciples had forgotten to bring bread, and they had only one loaf with them in the boat. 15Jesus repeatedly ordered them, saying, "Watch out! Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod." 16They began discussing this with one another, saying, "It is because we have no bread [that He said this]." 17Jesus, aware of this [discussion], said to them, "Why are you discussing [the fact] that you have no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened? 18"THOUGH YOU HAVE EYES, DO YOU NOT SEE? AND THOUGH YOU HAVE EARS, DO YOU NOT HEAR and LISTEN [to what I have said]? And do you not remember, 19when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces you picked up?" They answered, "Twelve."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

How: Mark 8:12, Mark 8:17, Mark 6:52, Mark 9:19, Psalms 94:8, Matthew 16:11, Matthew 16:12, John 14:9, 1 Corinthians 6:5, 1 Corinthians 15:34

Reciprocal: Hebrews 5:11 - dull

Cross-References

Genesis 3:17
Then to Adam the LORD God said, "Because you have listened [attentively] to the voice of your wife, and have eaten [fruit] from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it'; The ground is [now] under a curse because of you; In sorrow and toil you shall eat [the fruit] of it All the days of your life.
Genesis 4:12
"When you cultivate the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength [it will resist producing good crops] for you; you shall be a fugitive and a vagabond [roaming aimlessly] on the earth [in perpetual exile without a home, a degraded outcast]."
Genesis 5:29
He named him Noah, saying, "This one shall bring us rest and comfort from our work and from the [dreadful] toil of our hands because of the ground which the LORD cursed."
Genesis 6:5
The LORD saw that the wickedness (depravity) of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination or intent of the thoughts of his heart were only evil continually.
Genesis 6:17
"For behold, I, even I, will bring a flood of waters on the earth, to destroy all life under the heavens in which there is the breath and spirit of life; everything that is on the land shall die.
Genesis 8:1
And God remembered and thought kindly of Noah and every living thing and all the animals that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind blow over the land, and the waters receded.
Genesis 8:2
Also the fountains of the deep [subterranean waters] and the windows of the heavens were closed, the [pouring] rain from the sky was restrained,
Genesis 8:3
and the waters receded steadily from the earth. At the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had diminished.
Genesis 8:6
At the end of [another] forty days Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made;
Genesis 8:7
and he sent out a raven, which flew here and there until the waters were dried up from the earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he said unto them,.... Since this was the case, and they so well remembered the miracles he had wrought, and the circumstances of them:

how is it that ye do not understand? my words concerning the leaven of the Pharisees, of the Sadducees, and of Herod, as to imagine I spoke of bread, taken in a literal sense; or that I concerned myself about the scantiness of your provisions, when you, might have learnt from my late miracles, how able I am to support you, if you had not so much as one loaf with you: wherefore it argues great want both of understanding and faith, and shows great stupidity, ignorance, and unbelief, to give such a sense of my words, and to be anxiously concerned on the score of your provisions.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this passage explained in Matthew 16:1-12.

Mark 8:12

Sighed deeply in his spirit - His heart was deeply affected at their wickedness and hypocrisy. The word “spirit” here is taken as the seat of the emotions, passions, affections. He drew groans deeply from his breast.

No sign be given - That is, no such sign as they asked, to wit, a sign “from heaven.” He said a sign should be given, the same as was furnished by Jonas, Matthew 16:4. But this was not what they “asked,” nor would it be given “because” they asked it.

Mark 8:15

Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees - See Matthew 16:6.

Of Herod - Of the Herodians - of Herod and his followers. Matthew, instead of “Herod,” has “the Sadducees.” It is not improbably that he cautioned them against them all. The Pharisees sought his life, and were exceedingly corrupt in their doctrine and practice; the Sadducees denied some of the essential doctrines of religion, and the Herodians probably were distinguished for irreligion, sensuality, and corrupt living. They were united, therefore, with the Pharisees and Sadducees in opposing the claims of Jesus. Matthew has recorded his caution to avoid the Pharisees and Sadducees, and Mark has added, what Matthew had omitted. the caution likewise to beware of the Herodians. Thus, the evangelists speak the same thing.


 
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