6This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
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Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.
And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. …
Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-18)It is not certain whether this discourse was at the feast of dedication in the winter (spoken of John 10:22), which may be taken as the date, not only of what follows, but of what goes before (that which countenances this is, that Christ, in his discourse there, carries on the metaphor of the sheep, John 10:26 , 27 , whence it seems that that discourse and this were at the same time); or whether t…
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