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Green's Literal Translation

Mark 8:21

And He said to them, How do you 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?"
Amplified Bible
And He was saying to them, "Do you still not understand?"
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?"
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

10 And at once entering into the boat with His disciples, He came into the region of Dalmanutha. 11 And the Pharisees went out and began to argue with Him, seeking from Him a sign from Heaven, tempting Him. 12 And groaning in His spirit, He said, Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly I say to you, As if this generation will be given a sign! 13 And leaving them, again entering into the boat, He went away to the other side. 14 And the disciples forgot to take loaves. And they did not have any with them, except one loaf in the boat. 15 And He charged them, saying, See! Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod. 16 And they reasoned with one another, saying, Because we have no loaves. 17 And knowing, Jesus said to them, Why do you reason because you have no loaves? Do you not yet perceive nor realize? Have you still hardened your heart? 18 "Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear?" And do you not remember? Jer. 5:21 19 When I broke the five loaves to the five thousand, how many hand baskets full of fragments did you take up? They said to Him, 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
And He said to the man, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat from it, the ground shall be cursed because of you; you shall eatof it in sorrow all the days of your life.
Genesis 4:12
When you till the ground, it will not again give its strength to you. You shall be a vagabond and a fugitive on the earth.
Genesis 5:29
And he called his name Noah, saying, This one shall comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands because of the ground which the Lord has cursed.
Genesis 6:5
And Jehovah saw that the evil of man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the day long.
Genesis 6:17
And behold, I, even I, am bringing a flood of waters on the earth in order to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under the heavens. Everything which is on the earth shall die.
Genesis 8:1
And God remembered Noah and every living thing, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.
Genesis 8:2
And the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were stopped, and the rain from the heavens was restrained.
Genesis 8:3
And the waters retreated from the earth, going and retreating. And the waters diminished at the end of a hundred and fifty days.
Genesis 8:6
And it happened, at the end of forty days, even Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.
Genesis 8:7
And he sent out a raven, and it went out, going out and returning until the waters were dried up from off 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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