John 8:43

Why don't you understand what I say?—because you are not able to really hear my word.

Family 35 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

42So Jesus said to them: “If God were your Father, you would love me, because I came forth from God and I am here. Further, I have not come on my own, but He sent me.

44You are of your father the devil, and it is the desires of your father that you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks the lie he speaks from his own things, because he is a liar and the father of lying.

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Cross References

John 5:43I have come in my Father's name and you do not receive me; should another come in his own name, him you will receive.

John 7:17If anyone wants to do His will, he will know concerning the teaching, whether it is from God or whether I am speaking on my own.

John 12:39Therefore they were unable to believe, in that 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 →

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