Mark 8:21
19 When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.
20 And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.
And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?
22 And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.
23 And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Then He asked them, “Do you still not understand?”
- KJV
- And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?
- WEB
- He asked them, “Don’t you understand yet?”
- ASV
- And he said unto them, Do ye not yet understand?
- DARBY
- And he said to them, How do ye not yet understand?
- BLB
- And He was saying to them, “Do you⁺ not yet understand?”
- ÅB
- Og han sa til dem: Hvordan går det da til at dere enda ikke forstår?
- OTB
- Han spurte dem: "Er dere fortsatt uten forståelse?"
- B1930
- Og han sa til dem: Hvorledes går det da til at I ennu ikke forstår?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 94:8
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
Read in contextMark 6:52
For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened.
Read in contextJohn 14:9
Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
Read in contextMark 8:17
And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?
Read in context1 Corinthians 15:34
Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
Read in contextMatthew 16:11–12
How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
Read in context1 Corinthians 6:5
I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
Read in contextMark 8:12
And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.
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