John 8:43

why do you not know My speech? Because you are not able to hear My word.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

42Jesus then said to them, “If God were your father, you were loving Me, for I came forth from God, and am come; for neither have I come of Myself, but He sent Me;

44You are of a father—the Devil, and the desires of your father you will to do; he was a manslayer from the beginning, and he has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, he speaks of his own, because he is a liar—also his father.

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Cross References

Proverbs 28:5Evil men do not understand judgment, || And those seeking YHWH understand all.

Isaiah 44:18They have not known, nor do they understand, || For He has coated their eyes from seeing, || Their heart from acting wisely.

Hosea 14:9Who [is] wise, and understands these? Prudent, and knows them? For upright are the ways of YHWH, || And the righteous go on in them, || And the transgressors stumble therein!”

John 5:43I have come in the Name of My Father, and you do not receive Me; if another may come in his own name, him you will receive;

John 7:17if anyone may will to do His will, he will know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or—[if] I speak from Myself.

John 12:39Because of this they were not able to believe, that again Isaiah said,

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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