I have read the word myself. That's one of the major reasons why I'm not a creationist.
Good!
I read it a lot before real UNDERSTANDING started to take hold.
NIV Acts 8:30
Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. "Do you understand what you are reading?" Philip asked.
NIV Matthew 13:13-14
13. This is why I speak to them in parables: "Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
14. In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: "`You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
NIV Matthew 13:19
When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path.
NIV Matthew 15:10
Jesus called the crowd to him and said, "Listen and understand.
NIV Matthew 16:9
Do you still not understand? Don't you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?
NIV Matthew 16:11
How is it you don't understand that I was not talking to you about bread?
NIV Mark 4:33-34
33. With many similar parables Jesus spoke the word to them, as much as they could understand.
34. He did not say anything to them without using a parable. But when he was alone with his own disciples, he explained everything.
NIV Mark 8:21
He said to them, "Do you still not understand?"
NIV 1 Corinthians 2:12
We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.
That has to be the most convoluted reply that I have ever read.