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Matthew 15:16

And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?

KJV

ὁ δὲ εἶπεν· ἀκμὴν καὶ ὑμεῖς ἀσύνετοί ἐστε;

Greek NT

At ille dixit : Adhuc et vos sine intellectu estis ?

Vulgate

And he said, Are ye also even yet without understanding?

ASV

But he said: Are you also yet without understanding?

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
ἀκμήν
akmen
noun · 1×
ἀσύνετος
asunetos
adjective · 5×
o
article · 19778×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: δὲ | WH/Treg/NIV: δὲ | RP: + Ἰησοῦς
  • δὲSBLGNT
  • δὲWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + ἸησοῦςRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

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

2. What then says Christ? He did not set Himself against it, neither made He any defense, but straightway blames them again, plucking down their confidence, and signifying that he who commits great sins ought not to be strict with others concerning small matters. What? When you ought to be blamed, says He, do ye even blame? But do thou observe, how when it is His will to set as…
1. Introduction to the Feeding of the Five Thousand. And when even had come His disciples came to Him, Matthew 14:15 that is, at the consummation of the age in regard to which we may fitly say what is found in the Epistle of John, It is the last hour. 1 John 2:18 They, not yet understanding what the Word was about to do, say to Him, The place is desert, Matthew 14:15 seeing the…

Cross-references

  • Heb 5:12 — For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong me
  • Isa 28:9 — Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
  • Luke 9:45 — But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.
  • Luke 18:34 — And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.
  • Luke 24:45 — Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
  • Mark 6:52 — For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened.
  • Mark 7:15 — There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
  • Mark 7:18 — And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
  • Mark 7:18 — And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
  • 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?
  • Mark 9:32 — But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him.
  • 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 13:51 — Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.
  • Matt 15:10 — And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:
  • Matt 16:9 — Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
  • Matt 16:9 — Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
  • Matt 16:11 — 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?
  • Prov 7:7 — And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
  • Rom 1:31 — Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: