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Mark 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?

KJV

καὶ γνοὺς λέγει αὐτοῖς· τί διαλογίζεσθε ὅτι ἄρτους οὐκ ἔχετε; οὔπω νοεῖτε οὐδὲ συνίετε; ἔτι πεπωρωμένην ἔχετε τὴν καρδίαν ὑμῶν;

Greek NT

Quo cognito, ait illis Jesus : Quid cogitatis, quia panes non habetis ? nondum cognoscetis nec intelligitis ? adhuc cæcatum habetis cor vestrum ?

Vulgate

And Jesus perceiving it saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? do ye not yet perceive, neither understand? have ye your heart hardened?

ASV

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?

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

19 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γινώσκω
ginosko
verb · 222×
διαλογίζομαι
dialogizomai
verb · 16×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καρδία
kardia
noun · 156×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
νοιέω
noieo
verb · 14×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
οὐδέ
oude
conjunction · 137×
οὔπω
oupo
adverb · 25×
πωρόω
poroo
verb · 5×
συνίημι
suniemi
verb · 26×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
ἄρτος
artos
noun · 97×
ἔτι
eti
adverb · 94×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: γνοὺς | WH/NA: γνοὺς | Treg/NIV/RP: + ὁ Ἰησοῦς
  • γνοὺςSBLGNT
  • γνοὺςWestcott-Hort, Nestle-Aland 27
  • + ὁ ἸησοῦςTregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: πεπωρωμένην | WH/Treg/NIV: πεπωρωμένην | RP: Ἔτι πεπωρωμένην
  • πεπωρωμένηνSBLGNT
  • πεπωρωμένηνWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • Ἔτι πεπωρωμένηνRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

2. Since however they still spoke of the multitude merely, and the place, and the wilderness (for whence, it is said, should we have in a wilderness so many loaves, as to fill so great a multitude?); and not even so understood what He said, He proceeds to contribute His own part, and says unto them, How many loaves do you have? And they say, Seven, and a few little fishes. Matt…

Cross-references

  • Acts 28:26 — Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:
  • Ezek 12:2 — Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.
  • Heb 5:11 — Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
  • Heb 5:11 — Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
  • Isa 40:28 — Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
  • Isa 63:17 — O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
  • Job 33:14 — For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.
  • John 12:40 — He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
  • Josh 7:7 — And Joshua said, Alas, O LORD God, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt o
  • Luke 5:22 — But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts?
  • Luke 24:25 — Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
  • Mark 2:6 — But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,
  • Mark 2:8 — And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?
  • Mark 3:5 — And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restor
  • Mark 6:52 — For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened.
  • Mark 6:52 — For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened.
  • Mark 8:21 — And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?
  • Mark 16:14 — Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
  • Matt 15:16 — And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?
  • Matt 16:8 — Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?
  • Matt 16:10 — Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?