John 8:47
He that is of God, hears God’s words. For this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
In Context
46Which of you convicts me of sin? If I speak the truth, why do you not believe me?
48The Jews answered, and said to him: Do we not well say that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?
Cross References
John 6:45It is written in the prophets, And they shall all be taught of God. Every one that hears from the Father, and learns, comes to me.
John 8:37I know that you are the posterity of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you.
John 8:45But because I speak the truth, you believe me not.
John 17:6I have made known thy name to the men that thou gavest me out of the world. Thine they were, and thou gavest them, to me, and they have kept thy word.
1 John 3:10By this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whoever does not work righteousness is not of God; neither is he that loves not his brother.
1 John 5:1Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ, has been begotten of God: and every one that loves him that begot, loves him also that is begotten of him.
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 →