John 8:27

They did not understand that he spoke the Father to them.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.

In Context

26I have many things to say and to judge about you. But he who sent me is true, and I speak to the world these things that I heard from him.

28Jesus therefore said to them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then ye will know that I am he, and I do nothing from myself, but I speak these things as my Father taught me.

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Cross References

Isaiah 6:9And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but do not understand, and see ye indeed, but do not perceive.

Isaiah 59:10We grope for the wall like the blind. Yea, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noonday as in the twilight. [We are] as dead men in desolate places.

John 8:47He who is of God hears the sayings of God. Because of this ye do not hear, because ye are not of God.

2 Corinthians 4:3But even if our good-news is concealed, it is concealed in those who are perishing,

Matthew Henry on John 8:22-31

Christ's Discourse with the Pharisees. 21 Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come. 22 Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come. 23 And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world. 24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins. 25 Then said they unto… Read the whole commentary →

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