John 8:43

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 6:10 : 10 I answered,“Who would listen if I spoke to them and warned them? Their ears are so closed that they cannot hear! Indeed, the LORD’s message is offensive to them. They do not like it at all.
  • John 7:17 : 17 If anyone wants to do God’s will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.
  • John 8:27 : 27 (They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)
  • John 12:39-40 : 39 For this reason they could not believe, because again Isaiah said, 40 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and turn to me, and I would heal them.”
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 “You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like 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 outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 Concluding Exhortation Who is wise? Let him discern these things! Who is discerning? Let him understand them! For the ways of the LORD are right; the godly walk in them,but in them the rebellious stumble.
  • Mic 4:12 : 12 But they do not know what the LORD is planning; they do not understand his strategy. He has gathered them like stalks of grain to be threshed at the threshing floor.
  • John 5:43 : 43 I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.
  • John 6:60 : 60 Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said,“This is a difficult saying! Who can understand it?”
  • Prov 28:5 : 5 Evil people do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand it all.
  • Isa 6:9 : 9 He said,“Go and tell these people:‘Listen continually, but don’t understand! Look continually, but don’t perceive!’
  • Isa 44:18 : 18 They do not comprehend or understand, for their eyes are blind and cannot see; their minds do not discern.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 8:44-49
    6 verses
    83%

    44You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

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

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

    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.”

    48The Judeans replied,“Aren’t we correct in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?”

    49Jesus answered,“I am not possessed by a demon, but I honor my Father– and yet you dishonor me.

  • John 8:37-42
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    78%

    37I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.

    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!”

    39They answered him,“Abraham is our father!” Jesus replied,“If you are Abraham’s children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham.

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

    41You people are doing the deeds of your father.”Then they said to Jesus,“We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself.”

    42Jesus replied,“If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.

  • John 5:38
    76%

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

  • John 8:26-27
    2 verses
    76%

    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.”

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

  • Matt 13:13-14
    2 verses
    76%

    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 10:25-26
    2 verses
    75%

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

    26But you refuse to believe because you are not my sheep.

  • John 8:19-24
    6 verses
    74%

    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.)

    21Where Jesus Came From and Where He is Going Then Jesus said to them again,“I am going away, and you will look for me but will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.”

    22So the Jewish leaders began to say,“Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says,‘Where I am going you cannot come.’”

    23Jesus replied,“You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.

    24Thus 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
    74%

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

  • Mark 8:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    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 10:6
    73%

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

  • John 5:40
    72%

    40but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.

  • Matt 15:16
    72%

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

  • 1 John 4:5
    72%

    5They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world’s perspective and the world listens to them.

  • John 14:24
    71%

    24The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.

  • John 7:36
    71%

    36What did he mean by saying,‘You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come’?”

  • John 16:3
    71%

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

  • 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 6:65
    71%

    65So Jesus added,“Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come.”

  • John 8:52
    71%

    52Then the Judeans responded,“Now we know you’re possessed by a demon! Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet you say,‘If anyone obeys my teaching, he will never experience death.’

  • John 3:11
    71%

    11I tell you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.

  • John 7:7
    71%

    7The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

  • John 7:34
    71%

    34You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come.”

  • Matt 13:10
    70%

    10Then the disciples came to him and said,“Why do you speak to them in parables?”

  • Luke 6:46
    70%

    46“Why do you call me‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do what I tell you?

  • John 5:42
    70%

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

  • Mark 4:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    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?

  • 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 people do not know where I came from or where I am going.

  • John 16:18
    70%

    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.”

  • Isa 6:9
    70%

    9He said,“Go and tell these people:‘Listen continually, but don’t understand! Look continually, but don’t perceive!’

  • John 8:55
    69%

    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.