John 8:43
Why do ye not understand my speech? Because ye cannot hear my word.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
In Context
Cross References
Proverbs 28:5Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek LORD understand all things.
Isaiah 44:18They do not know, nor do they consider. For he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see, and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
Hosea 14:9Who is wise, that he may understand these things, prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them. But transgressors shall fall therein.
John 5:43I have come in my Father's name, and ye do not accept me. If another man should come in his own name, ye will accept that man.
John 7:17If any man wants to do his will, he will know about the doctrine, whether it is from God, or I speak from myself.
John 12:39Because of this they could not believe. Because Isaiah said again,
Matthew Henry on John 8:39-48
Christ's Discourse with the Pharisees. 38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father. 39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. 40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham. 41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even… Read the whole commentary →