John 8:43

KJV1611 – Modern English

Why do you not understand my speech? Because you cannot hear my word.

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  • Jer 6:10 : 10 To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, and they cannot listen. Behold, the word of the LORD is to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
  • John 7:17 : 17 If anyone will do his will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak on my own authority.
  • John 8:27 : 27 They did not understand that he spoke to them of the Father.
  • John 12:39-40 : 39 Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again, 40 He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they should see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts and turn, and I should heal them.
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
  • Rom 3:11 : 11 'There is none who understands, there is none who seeks after God.'
  • Rom 8:7-8 : 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. 8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 Who 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 therein.
  • Mic 4:12 : 12 But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD, nor do they understand His counsel; for He shall gather them as sheaves into the threshing floor.
  • John 6:60 : 60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can understand it?
  • Prov 28:5 : 5 Evil people do not understand judgment, but those who seek the LORD understand all things.
  • Isa 6:9 : 9 And He said, Go and tell this people, You hear indeed, but do not understand; and you see indeed, but do not perceive.
  • Isa 44:18 : 18 They have not known nor understood: for he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

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

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

    46Which of you convicts me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

    47He who is of God hears God's words: you therefore do not hear them, because you are not of God.

    48Then the Jews answered and said to him, Do we not say rightly 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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    78%

    37I know that you are Abraham's descendants; but you seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you.

    38I speak what I have seen with my Father: and you do what you have seen with your father.

    39They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.

    40But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I have heard from God: Abraham did not do this.

    41You do the deeds of your father. Then they said to him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

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

  • John 8:26-27
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    76%

    26I have many things to say and to judge concerning you: but he who sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard from him.

    27They did not understand that he spoke to them of the Father.

  • Matt 13:13-14
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    13This is why I speak to them in parables: Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.

    14In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: By hearing, you shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing, you shall see and shall not perceive.

  • John 10:25-26
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    25Jesus answered them, I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.

    26But you do not believe because you are not of my sheep, as I said to you.

  • John 8:19-24
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    19Then they said to him, Where is your Father? Jesus answered, You neither know me nor my Father: if you had known me, you should have known my Father also.

    20These words spoke Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no one laid hands on him; for his hour had not yet come.

    21Then Jesus said again to them, I go my way, and you shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: where I go, you cannot come.

    22Then the Jews said, Will he kill himself? because he says, Where I go, you cannot come.

    23And he said to them, You are from beneath; I am from above: you are of this world; I am not of this world.

    24I said therefore to you, that you shall die in your sins: for if you do not believe that I am he, you shall die in your sins.

  • Mark 8:21
    74%

    21And he said to them, How is it that you do not understand?

  • Mark 8:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17And when Jesus knew it, he said to them, Why do you reason because you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Is your heart still hardened?

    18Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember?

  • John 10:6
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    6This parable Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

  • Matt 15:16
    72%

    16And Jesus said, Are you also still without understanding?

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

  • John 14:24
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    24He who does not love me does not keep my words: and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

  • John 7:36
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    36What does he mean by saying, You will seek me and not find me, and where I am, you cannot come?

  • John 16:3
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    3And they will do these things to you because they have not known the Father, nor me.

  • Acts 28:26
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    26saying, Go to this people and say, Hearing you will hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you will see, and not perceive.

  • John 6:65
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    65And he said, Therefore I said to you, that no man can come to me, except it were given to him by my Father.

  • John 8:52
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    52Then the Jews said to him, Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and you say, If a man keeps my word, he shall never taste death.

  • John 3:11
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    11Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak what we know and testify what we have seen, and you do not receive our witness.

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

  • John 7:34
    71%

    34You will seek me and not find me, and where I am, you cannot come.

  • Matt 13:10
    70%

    10And the disciples came to Him and asked, Why do You speak to them in parables?

  • Luke 6:46
    70%

    46And why do you call me, Lord, Lord, and do not do the things which I say?

  • Mark 4:12-13
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    70%

    12that seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.

    13And he said to them, Do you not know this parable? How then will you know all parables?

  • John 8:14
    70%

    14Jesus answered and said to them, Though I bear witness of myself, my witness is true: for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you cannot tell where I come from, and where I am going.

  • John 16:18
    70%

    18They said therefore, 'What is this that he says, A little while? We do not understand what he is saying.'

  • Isa 6:9
    70%

    9And He said, Go and tell this people, You hear indeed, but do not understand; and you see indeed, but do not perceive.

  • John 8:55
    69%

    55Yet you have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I do not know him, I shall be a liar like you: but I know him, and keep his word.