Bible Verses About Apostles: Fail to comprehend the nature and mission of Jesus, and the nature of the kingdom He came to establish

So they came and roused him, saying, "Sir! Help! We're about to die!"

He said to them, "Why are you afraid? So little trust you have!" Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and there was a dead calm.

The men were astounded. They asked, "What kind of man is this, that even the winds and sea obey him?"

But Yeshua, aware of this, said, "Such little trust you have! Why are you talking with each other about not having bread?

Don't you understand yet? Don't you remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you filled?

Or the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many baskets you filled?

How can you possibly think I was talking to you about bread? Guard yourselves from the hametz of the P'rushim and Tz'dukim!"

Then they understood -- they were to guard themselves not from yeast for bread but from the teaching of the P'rushim and Tz'dukim.

From that time on, Yeshua began making it clear to his talmidim that he had to go to Yerushalayim and endure much suffering at the hands of the elders, the head cohanim and the Torah-teachers; and that he had to be put to death; but that on the third day, he had to be raised to life.

Kefa took him aside and began rebuking him, "Heaven be merciful, Lord! By no means will this happen to you!"

He got into the boat with them, and the wind ceased. They were completely astounded,

for they did not understand about the loaves; on the contrary, their hearts had been made stone-like.

But, aware of this, he said, "Why are you talking with each other about having no bread? Don't you see or understand yet? Have your hearts been made like stone?

You have eyes -- don't you see? You have ears -- don't you hear? And don't you remember?

As they came down the mountain, he warned them not to tell anyone what they had seen until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

So they kept the matter to themselves; but they continued asking each other, "What is this `rising from the dead'?"

because he was teaching his talmidim. He told them, "The Son of Man will be betrayed into the hands of men who will put him to death; but after he has been killed, three days later he will rise."

But they didn't understand what he meant, and they were afraid to ask him.

People were bringing children to him so that he might touch them, but the talmidim rebuked those people.

However, when Yeshua saw it, he became indignant and said to them, "Let the children come to me, don't stop them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

“Listen very carefully to what I’m going to say. The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men.”

But they didn’t understand what he meant by this. It had been concealed from them so that they would not grasp its meaning, and they were afraid to ask him about it.

But he answered, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

At this, the talmidim asked one another, “Could someone have brought him food?”

The talmidim said to him, “Lord, if he has gone to sleep, he will get better.”