John 8:43

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

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

42Then said Jesus unto them, If God was your Father, ye would have loved me: for I came out from God, and I am coming; neither indeed came I of myself, but he hath sent me.

44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will practise. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not fast in the truth, because truth was not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh what is peculiarly his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

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Cross References

John 5:43I have come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another come in his own name, him ye will receive.

John 7:17If any man will do his will, he shall know respecting the doctrine, whether it is of God, or whether I speak from myself.

John 12:39For this reason they could not believe, because Isaiah had 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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