Hebrews 5:11
“About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.”
What does Hebrews 5:11 mean?
The writer here is expressing a gentle frustration: he has important things to teach about Jesus as our eternal priest, but the readers have stopped paying close attention to spiritual truth. "Dull of hearing" doesn't mean they literally can't listen, but that they've grown lazy or distracted in their faith, perhaps worn down by hardship or the normal drift that happens when we neglect paying attention to God. It's an honest moment where the author acknowledges that even though he has valuable wisdom to share, it won't land well if people's hearts aren't open and ready to receive it. The encouragement beneath the rebuke is that spiritual growth requires us to actively stay engaged, not passively coast.