New Revised Standard Version
Jesus used this figure of speech with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus told the people this story. But they did not understand what he was talking about.

New American Bible
Although Jesus used this figure of speech, they did not realize what he was trying to tell them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
This proverb Jesus spoke to them. But they understood not what he spoke.

This proverb Jesus spoke to them. But they understood not what he spoke.

they understood not.

John 6:52,60 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat? . . .

John 7:36 What is this saying that he hath said: You shall seek me and shall not find me? And: Where I am, you cannot come?

John 8:27,43 And they understood not that he called God his Father. . . .

Psalm 82:5 They have not known nor understood: they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be moved.

Psalm 106:7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies: And they provoked to wrath going up to the sea, even the Red Sea.

Proverbs 28:5 Evil men think not on judgment: but they that seek after the Lord, take notice of all things.

Isaiah 6:9,10 And he said: Go, and thou shalt say to this people: Hearing, hear, and understand not: and see the vision, and know it not. . . .

Isaiah 56:11 And most impudent dogs, they never had enough: the shepherds themselves knew no understanding: all have turned aside into their own way, every one after his own gain, from the first even to the last.

Daniel 12:10 Many shall be chosen, and made white, and shall be tried as fire: and the wicked shall deal wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand, but the learned shall understand.

Matthew 13:13,14,51 Therefore do I speak to them in parables: because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. . . .

1 Corinthians 2:14 But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God. For it is foolishness to him: and he cannot understand, because it is spiritually examined.

1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come. And he hath given us understanding that we may know the true God and may be in his true Son. This is the true God and life eternal.