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Mark 8:21

And he said to them: How do you not yet 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?"
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?
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 immediately going up into a ship with his disciples, he came into the parts of Dalmanutha. 11 And the Pharisees came forth and began to question with him, asking him a sign from heaven, tempting him. 12 And sighing deeply in spirit, he saith: Why doth this generation seek a sign? Amen, I say to you, a sign shall not be given to this generation. 13 And leaving them, he went up again into the ship and passed to the other side of the water. 14 And they forgot to take bread: and they had but one loaf with them in the ship. 15 And he charged them saying: Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the leaven of Herod. 16 And they reasoned among themselves, saying: Because we have no bread. 17 Which Jesus knowing, saith to them: Why do you reason, because you have no bread? Do you not yet know nor understand? Have you still your heart blinded? 18 Having eyes, see you not? And having ears, hear you not? Neither do you remember? 19 When I broke the five loves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took you up? They say 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 to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life.
Genesis 4:12
When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield to thee its fruit: a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth.
Genesis 5:29
And he called his name Noe, saying: This same shall comfort us from the works and labours of our hands on the earth, which the Lord hath cursed.
Genesis 6:5
And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,
Genesis 6:17
Behold, I will bring the waters of a great flood upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life under heaven. All things that are in the earth shall be consumed.
Genesis 8:1
And God remembered Noe, and all the living creatures, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth, and the waters were abated:
Genesis 8:2
The fountains also of the deep, and the floodgates of heaven, were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.
Genesis 8:3
And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.
Genesis 8:6
And after that forty days were passed, Noe opening the window of the ark, which he had made, sent forth a raven:
Genesis 8:7
Which went forth and did not return, till the waters were dried up upon 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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