John 8:43

Why do you not understand what I say? Because you are unable to hear My word.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

In Context

42Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would have loved Me, for I came forth and have come from God; nor have I come from Myself, but He sent Me.

44You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you desire to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

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Cross References

John 5:43I have come in My Father's name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive.

John 7:17If anyone desires to do His will, he will know about the doctrine, whether it is from God, or whether I am speaking on My own authority.

John 12:39Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again: 1

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 →

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