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

They came to him, and woke him up, saying, “Save us, Lord! We are dying!”

He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.

The men marveled, saying, “What kind of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”

Yeshua, perceiving it, said, “Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, ‘because you have brought no bread?’

Don’t you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Then they understood that he didn’t tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

From that time, Yeshua began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.

Peter took him aside, and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you.”

He got into the boat with them; and the wind ceased, and they were very amazed among themselves, and marveled;

for they hadn’t understood about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

Yeshua, perceiving it, said to them, “Why do you reason that it’s because you have no bread? Don’t you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened?

Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?

As they were coming down from the mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the “rising from the dead” meant.

For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, “The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise again.”

But they didn’t understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them.

But when Yeshua saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

“Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men.”

But they didn’t understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

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

The disciples therefore said one to another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”

The disciples therefore said, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”