Mark 6:52
New International Version
for they had not understood about the loaves; their hearts were hardened.

New Living Translation
for they still didn’t understand the significance of the miracle of the loaves. Their hearts were too hard to take it in.

English Standard Version
for they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

Berean Standard Bible
for they had not understood about the loaves, but their hearts had been hardened.

Berean Literal Bible
for they had not understood about the loaves, but their heart had been hardened.

King James Bible
For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened.

New King James Version
For they had not understood about the loaves, because their heart was hardened.

New American Standard Bible
for they had not gained any insight from the incident of the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

NASB 1995
for they had not gained any insight from the incident of the loaves, but their heart was hardened.

NASB 1977
for they had not gained any insight from the incident of the loaves, but their heart was hardened.

Legacy Standard Bible
for they had not gained any insight about the loaves, but their heart was hardened.

Amplified Bible
because they had not understood [the miracle of] the loaves [how it revealed the power and deity of Jesus]; but [in fact] their heart was hardened [being oblivious and indifferent to His amazing works].

Christian Standard Bible
because they had not understood about the loaves. Instead, their hearts were hardened.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
because they had not understood about the loaves. Instead, their hearts were hardened.

American Standard Version
for they understood not concerning the loaves, but their heart was hardened.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For they had not learned from the bread, because their heart was stupid.

Contemporary English Version
Their minds were closed, and they could not understand the true meaning of the loaves of bread.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For they understood not concerning the loaves; for their heart was blinded.

English Revised Version
for they understood not concerning the loaves, but their heart was hardened.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
(They didn't understand what had happened with the loaves of bread. Instead, their minds were closed.)

Good News Translation
because they had not understood the real meaning of the feeding of the five thousand; their minds could not grasp it.

International Standard Version
because they didn't understand the significance of the loaves. Instead, their hearts were hardened.

Literal Standard Version
for they did not understand concerning the loaves, for their heart has been hard.

Majority Standard Bible
for they had not understood about the loaves, but their hearts had been hardened.

New American Bible
They had not understood the incident of the loaves. On the contrary, their hearts were hardened.

NET Bible
because they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

New Revised Standard Version
for they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

New Heart English Bible
for they had not understood about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

Webster's Bible Translation
For they considered not the miracle of the loaves; for their heart was hardened.

Weymouth New Testament
For they had not learned the lesson taught by the loaves, but their minds were dull.

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

Young's Literal Translation
for they understood not concerning the loaves, for their heart hath been hard.

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Context
Jesus Walks on Water
51Then He climbed into the boat with them, and the wind died down. And the disciples were utterly astounded, 52for they had not understood about the loaves, but their hearts had been hardened. 53When they had crossed over, they landed at Gennesaret and moored the boat.…

Cross References
Mark 8:17
Aware of their conversation, Jesus asked them, "Why are you debating about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Do you have such hard hearts?

Mark 8:21
Then He asked them, "Do you still not understand?"

John 12:40
"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them."

Romans 11:7
What then? What Israel was seeking, it failed to obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened,


Treasury of Scripture

For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened.

they.

Mark 7:18
And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;

Mark 8:17,18,21
And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened? …

Matthew 16:9-11
Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? …

their.

Mark 3:5
And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.

Mark 16:14
Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.

Isaiah 63:17
O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

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Mark 6
1. Jesus is a prophet without honor in his own country.
7. He gives the twelve power over unclean spirits.
14. Various opinions of Jesus.
16. John the Baptist is imprisoned, beheaded, and buried.
30. The apostles return from preaching.
34. The miracle of five loaves and two fishes.
45. Jesus walks on the sea;
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(52) For they considered not.--This is peculiar to St. Mark, and may fairly be received as representing St. Peter's recollection of what had been the mental state of the disciples at the time. They had not drawn from the miracle of the Loaves the conclusion which they might have drawn, that all natural forces were subject to their Master's sovereignty. The personal connection of the Evangelist with the Apostle may, perhaps, also account for his omission of the narrative which St. Matthew gives of his rashness and failing faith.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
for
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

they had not understood
συνῆκαν (synēkan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 4920: To consider, understand, perceive. From sun and hiemi; to put together, i.e. to comprehend; by implication, to act piously.

about
ἐπὶ (epi)
Preposition
Strong's 1909: On, to, against, on the basis of, at.

the
τοῖς (tois)
Article - Dative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

loaves,
ἄρτοις (artois)
Noun - Dative Masculine Plural
Strong's 740: Bread, a loaf, food. From airo; bread or a loaf.

but
ἀλλ’ (all’)
Conjunction
Strong's 235: But, except, however. Neuter plural of allos; properly, other things, i.e. contrariwise.

their
αὐτῶν (autōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

hearts
καρδία (kardia)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2588: Prolonged from a primary kar; the heart, i.e. the thoughts or feelings; also the middle.

had been
ἦν (ēn)
Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

hardened.
πεπωρωμένη (pepōrōmenē)
Verb - Perfect Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 4456: To harden, render callous, petrify. Apparently from poros; to petrify, i.e. to indurate.


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