and the way of peace they have not known.”

(They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)

They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.

When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them.

And they knew nothing until the flood came and took them all away. It will be the same at the coming of the Son of Man.

But many saw them leaving and recognized them, and they hurried on foot from all the towns and arrived there ahead of them.

Now they wanted to arrest him (but they feared the crowd), because they realized that he told this parable against them. So they left him and went away.

But when the feast was over, as they were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it,

Yet here he is, speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the rulers really know that this man is the Christ?

Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

None of the rulers of this age understood it. If they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

“Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, ‘Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.’

Then the experts in the law and the chief priests wanted to arrest him that very hour, because they realized he had told this parable against them. But they were afraid of the people.

(His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him and that these things had happened to him.)

because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.

But when the Jews from Thessalonica heard that Paul had also proclaimed the word of God in Berea, they came there too, inciting and disturbing the crowds.

But to the rest of you in Thyatira, all who do not hold to this teaching (who have not learned the so-called “deep secrets of Satan”), to you I say: I do not put any additional burden on you.