John 8:27

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

(They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 6:9 : 9 He said,“Go and tell these people:‘Listen continually, but don’t understand! Look continually, but don’t perceive!’
  • Isa 42:18-20 : 18 The Lord Reasons with His People“Listen, you deaf ones! Take notice, you blind ones! 19 My servant is truly blind, my messenger is truly deaf. My covenant partner, the servant of the LORD, is truly blind. 20 You see many things, but don’t comprehend; their ears are open, but do not hear.”
  • Isa 59:10 : 10 We grope along the wall like the blind, we grope like those who cannot see; we stumble at noontime as if it were evening. Though others are strong, we are like dead men.
  • John 8:43 : 43 Why don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.
  • John 8:47 : 47 The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond, because you don’t belong to God.”
  • Rom 11:7-9 : 7 What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. The rest were hardened, 8 as it is written,“God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day.” 9 And David says,“Let their table become a snare and trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them; 10 let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see, and make their backs bend continually.”
  • 2 Cor 4:3-4 : 3 But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing, 4 among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who do not believe so they would not see the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Luke 2:50
    83%

    50Yet his parents did not understand the remark he made to them.

  • John 10:6
    82%

    6Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

  • John 8:19-20
    2 verses
    79%

    19Then they began asking him,“Who is your father?” Jesus answered,“You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too.”

    20(Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)

  • Luke 9:45
    79%

    45But they did not understand this statement; its meaning had been concealed from them, so that they could not grasp it. Yet they were afraid to ask him about this statement.

  • John 8:28
    79%

    28Then Jesus said,“When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.

  • Mark 8:21
    79%

    21Then he said to them,“Do you still not understand?”

  • Mark 9:32
    78%

    32But they did not understand this statement and were afraid to ask him.

  • John 8:43
    76%

    43Why don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.

  • Luke 18:34
    76%

    34But the twelve understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what Jesus meant.

  • Matt 17:13
    75%

    13Then the disciples understood that he was speaking to them about John the Baptist.

  • Matt 11:27
    75%

    27All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.

  • John 16:18
    74%

    18So they kept on repeating,“What is the meaning of what he says,‘In a little while’? We do not understand what he is talking about.”

  • John 16:3
    74%

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

  • Matt 13:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand.

    14And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:‘You will listen carefully yet will never understand, you will look closely yet will never comprehend.

  • John 8:38
    73%

    38I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!”

  • John 8:26
    73%

    26I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the Father who sent me is truthful, and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world.”

  • John 14:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9Jesus replied,“Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say,‘Show us the Father’?

    10Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.

  • John 17:25
    73%

    25Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

  • John 8:47
    73%

    47The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond, because you don’t belong to God.”

  • Luke 10:22
    73%

    22All things have been given to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.”

  • Luke 20:7
    72%

    7So they replied that they did not know where it came from.

  • Matt 15:16
    72%

    16Jesus said,“Even after all this, are you still so foolish?

  • John 13:28
    72%

    28(Now none of those present at the table understood why Jesus said this to Judas.

  • Mark 8:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17When he learned of this, Jesus said to them,“Why are you arguing about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Have your hearts been hardened?

    18Though you have eyes, don’t you see? And though you have ears, can’t you hear? Don’t you remember?

  • John 16:25
    72%

    25“I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; a time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

  • John 10:25
    71%

    25Jesus replied,“I told you and you do not believe. The deeds I do in my Father’s name testify about me.

  • Mark 4:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12so that although they look they may look but not see, and although they hear they may hear but not understand, so they may not repent and be forgiven.”

    13He said to them,“Don’t you understand this parable? Then how will you understand any parable?

  • Isa 44:18
    71%

    18They do not comprehend or understand, for their eyes are blind and cannot see; their minds do not discern.

  • John 16:29
    71%

    29His disciples said,“Look, now you are speaking plainly and not in obscure figures of speech!

  • John 14:7
    71%

    7If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from now on you do know him and have seen him.”

  • Gen 42:23
    71%

    23(Now they did not know that Joseph could understand them, for he was speaking through an interpreter.)

  • John 3:10
    71%

    10Jesus answered,“Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you don’t understand these things?

  • John 5:19
    71%

    19So Jesus answered them,“I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.

  • Acts 28:26
    71%

    26when he said,‘Go to this people and say,“You will keep on hearing, but will never understand, and you will keep on looking, but will never perceive.

  • John 6:46
    71%

    46(Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God– he has seen the Father.)

  • John 8:55
    70%

    55Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.

  • John 12:16
    70%

    16(His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him and that these things had happened to him.)

  • Mark 9:6
    70%

    6(For they were afraid, and he did not know what to say.)

  • Luke 24:16
    70%

    16(but their eyes were kept from recognizing him).

  • John 5:38
    70%

    38nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

  • John 10:38
    70%

    38But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may come to know and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.”

  • Matt 21:27
    70%

    27So they answered Jesus,“We don’t know.” Then he said to them,“Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.

  • John 15:21
    70%

    21But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

  • John 20:9
    70%

    9(For they did not yet understand the scripture that Jesus must rise from the dead.)

  • John 12:49
    70%

    49For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.