John 8:27

(They did not know that he was speaking to them about the Father.)

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

26I have many things to say about you and to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I tell the world what I have heard from him.”

28So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he and that I do nothing on my own authority, but I speak these things just as my Father taught me.

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Cross References

John 8:47Whoever belongs to God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear them is because you do not belong to God.”

2 Corinthians 4:3But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled among those who are perishing.

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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