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John 8:43

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

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

42Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do: he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

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Cross References

Proverbs 28:5Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things .

Isaiah 44:18They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

Hosea 14:9Who is wise, and he shall understand these things ? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall in them.

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

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

John 12:39Therefore they could not believe, because 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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