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

and his disciples having come to him, awoke him, saying, `Sir, save us; we are perishing.'

And he saith to them, `Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?' Then having risen, he rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm;

and the men wondered, saying, `What kind--is this, that even the wind and the sea do obey him?'

And Jesus having known, said to them, `Why reason ye in yourselves, ye of little faith, because ye took no loaves?

do ye not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many hand-baskets ye took up?

nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

how do ye not understand that I did not speak to you of bread--to take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?'

Then they understood that he did not say to take heed of the leaven of the bread, but of the teaching, of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

From that time began Jesus to shew to his disciples that it is necessary for him to go away to Jerusalem, and to suffer many things from the elders, and chief priests, and scribes, and to be put to death, and the third day to rise.

And having taken him aside, Peter began to rebuke him, saying, `Be kind to thyself, sir; this shall not be to thee;'

And he went up unto them to the boat, and the wind lulled, and greatly out of measure were they amazed in themselves, and were wondering,

for they understood not concerning the loaves, for their heart hath been hard.

And Jesus having known, saith to them, `Why do ye reason, because ye have no loaves? do ye not yet perceive, nor understand, yet have ye your heart hardened?

Having eyes, do ye not see? and having ears, do ye not hear? and do ye not remember?

And as they are coming down from the mount, he charged them that they may declare to no one the things that they saw, except when the Son of Man may rise out of the dead;

and the thing they kept to themselves, questioning together what the rising out of the dead is.

for he was teaching his disciples, and he said to them, `The Son of Man is being delivered to the hands of men, and they shall kill him, and having been killed the third day he shall rise,'

but they were not understanding the saying, and they were afraid to question him.

And they were bringing to him children, that he might touch them, and the disciples were rebuking those bringing them,

and Jesus having seen, was much displeased, and he said to them, `Suffer the children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the reign of God;

`Lay ye to your ears these words, for the Son of Man is about to be delivered up to the hands of men.'

And they were not knowing this saying, and it was veiled from them, that they might not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

and he said to them, `I have food to eat that ye have not known.'

The disciples then said one to another, `Did any one bring him anything to eat?'

therefore said his disciples, `Sir, if he hath fallen asleep, he will be saved;'