Mark 6:52
Good News Translation
because they had not understood the real meaning of the feeding of the five thousand; their minds could not grasp it.

New Revised Standard Version
for they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

Contemporary English Version
Their minds were closed, and they could not understand the true meaning of the loaves of bread.

New American Bible
They had not understood the incident of the loaves. On the contrary, their hearts were hardened.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For they understood not concerning the loaves; for their heart was blinded.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For they understood not concerning the loaves; for their heart was blinded.

they.

Mark 7:18 And he saith to them: So are you also without knowledge? Understand you not that every thing from without entering into a man cannot defile him:

Mark 8:17,18,21 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? . . .

Matthew 16:9-11 Do you not yet understand, neither do you remember the five loaves among five thousand men, and how many baskets you took up? . . .

Luke 24:25 Then he said to them: O foolish and slow of heart to believe in all things, Which the prophets have spoken.

their.

Mark 3:5 And looking round about on them with anger, being grieved for the blindness of their hearts, he saith to the man: Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth: and his hand was restored unto him.

Mark 16:14 At length he appeared to the eleven as they were at table: and he upbraided them with their incredulity and hardness of heart, because they did not believe them who had seen him after he was risen again.

Isaiah 63:17 Why hast thou made us to err, O Lord, from thy ways: why hast thou hardened our heart, that we should not fear thee? return for the sake of thy servants, the tribes of thy inheritance.

Context
Jesus Walks on Water
51And he went up to them into the ship, and the wind ceased: and they were far more astonished within themselves: 52For they understood not concerning the loaves; for their heart was blinded. 53And when they had passed over, they came into the land of Genezareth, and set to the shore.…
Cross References
Mark 8:17
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?

Mark 8:21
And he said to them: How do you not yet understand?

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.

Romans 11:7
What then? That which Israel sought, he hath not obtained: but the election hath obtained it. And the rest have been blinded.

Mark 6:51
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