John 8:43

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Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.

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  • Jer 6:10 : 10 To whom can I speak and give warning so they will listen? Their ears are closed, and they cannot pay attention. The word of the Lord is offensive to them; they take no pleasure in it.
  • John 7:17 : 17 'If anyone wants to do His will, they will know whether My teaching comes from God or whether I speak on My own authority.'
  • John 8:27 : 27 They did not understand that he was speaking to them about the Father.
  • John 12:39-40 : 39 This is why they were unable to believe, because Isaiah also said: 40 "He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they would not see with their eyes or understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them."
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors did.
  • Rom 3:11 : 11 "There is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God."
  • Rom 8:7-8 : 7 Because the mindset of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 Ephraim, what more have I to do with idols? I will answer him and care for him. I am like a flourishing cypress; your fruit comes from me.
  • Mic 4:12 : 12 But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD; they do not understand His plan, that He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.
  • John 5:43 : 43 I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. But if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.
  • John 6:60 : 60 On hearing this, many of his disciples said, 'This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?'
  • Prov 28:5 : 5 Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand all things.
  • Isa 6:9 : 9 And He said, "Go, and say to this people: ‘Keep listening, but do not understand; keep looking, but do not perceive.’
  • Isa 44:18 : 18 They have no knowledge or understanding; their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see, and their hearts so they cannot understand.

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  • John 8:44-49
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    44You are from your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

    45But because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me.

    46Who among you can convict me of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me?

    47The one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you do not listen, because you are not from God.

    48The Jews responded to him, "Aren’t we right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?"

    49Jesus answered, "I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

  • John 8:37-42
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    37I know that you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill me because my word has no place in you.

    38I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father."

    39They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.

    40But now you are trying to kill me—a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.

    41You are doing the works of your father." They said to him, "We are not illegitimate children. We have one Father—God."

    42Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I did not come on my own, but he sent me.

  • John 5:38
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    38Nor do you have His word abiding in you, because you do not believe the one He sent.

  • John 8:26-27
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    26I have much to say about you and much to judge. But the one who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him."

    27They did not understand that he was speaking to them about the Father.

  • Matt 13:13-14
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    13That is why I speak to them in parables, because although they see, they do not see; and although they hear, they do not hear or understand.

    14In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah that says: 'You will indeed hear but never understand; you will indeed see but never perceive.'

  • John 10:25-26
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    25Jesus answered them, 'I told you, and you do not believe. The works I do in my Father's name testify about me,

    26but you do not believe because you are not my sheep.

  • John 8:19-24
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    74%

    19Then they asked him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also."

    20He spoke these words while teaching in the temple treasury. Yet no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.

    21Then he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come."

    22So the Jews said, "Surely he won’t kill himself, will he, since he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?

    23He said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

    24That is why I told you that you will die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins."

  • Mark 8:21
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    21Then he said to them, 'Do you still not understand?'

  • Mark 8:17-18
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    17Aware of this, Jesus said to them, 'Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you still not understand or comprehend? Are your hearts hardened?'

    18Do you have eyes and not see, and ears and not hear? And do you not remember?

  • John 10:6
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    6Jesus used this figure of speech with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

  • John 5:40
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    40But you are unwilling to come to me so that you may have life.

  • Matt 15:16
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    16Jesus replied, “Are you still without understanding?”

  • 1 John 4:5
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    5They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.

  • John 14:24
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    24The one who does not love me does not keep my words. The word you hear is not my own but belongs to the Father who sent me.

  • John 7:36
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    36What does He mean when He said, ‘You will look for Me, but you will not find Me,’ and ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”

  • John 16:3
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    3They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.

  • Acts 28:26
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    26'Go to this people and say, "You will indeed hear but never understand; you will indeed see but never perceive."'

  • John 6:65
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    65He went on to say, 'This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted to them by the Father.'

  • John 8:52
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    52Then the Jews said, "Now we know you have a demon. Abraham died, and so did the prophets. Yet you say, 'If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.'

  • John 3:11
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    11Truly, truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but you do not accept our testimony.

  • John 7:7
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    7'The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify about it that its works are evil.'

  • John 7:34
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    34You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.'

  • Matt 13:10
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    10Then the disciples approached him and asked, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"

  • Luke 6:46
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    46Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' but do not do what I say?

  • John 5:42
    70%

    42But I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

  • Mark 4:12-13
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    70%

    12"So that, 'Though they see, they may see and not perceive; and though they hear, they may hear and not understand; otherwise they might turn back and be forgiven.'

    13He said to them, "Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?

  • John 8:14
    70%

    14Jesus answered, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I come from or where I am going.

  • John 16:18
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    18They said, 'What does he mean by “a little while”? We do not know what he is talking about.'

  • Isa 6:9
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    9And He said, "Go, and say to this people: ‘Keep listening, but do not understand; keep looking, but do not perceive.’

  • John 8:55
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    55Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I know him and I keep his word.