John 8:27

And they understood not, that he called God his Father.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

26Many things I have to speak and to judge of you. But he that sent me, is true: and the things I have heard of him, these same I speak in the world.

28Jesus therefore said to them: When you shall have lifted up the Son of man, then shall you know, that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself, but as the Father hath taught me, these things I speak:

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Cross References

Isaiah 6:9And he said: Go, and thou shalt say to this people: Hearing, hear, and understand not: and see the vision, and know it not.

Isaiah 59:10We have groped for the wall, and like the blind we have groped as if we had no eyes: we have stumbled at noonday as in darkness, we are in dark places as dead men.

John 8:47He that is of God, heareth the words of God. Therefore you hear them not, because you are not of God.

2 Corinthians 4:3And if our gospel be also hid, it is hid to them that are lost,

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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