John 8:27
They didn't understand that he spoke to them about the Father.
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- Isa 6:9 : 9 He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed, but don't understand; and you see indeed, but don't perceive.'
- Isa 42:18-20 : 18 "Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see. 19 Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as Yahweh's servant? 20 You see many things, but don't observe. His ears are open, but he doesn't listen.
- Isa 59:10 : 10 We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.
- John 8:43 : 43 Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word.
- John 8:47 : 47 He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don't hear, because you are not of God."
- Rom 11:7-9 : 7 What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn't obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened. 8 According as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day." 9 David says, "Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them. 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Bow down their back always."
- 2 Cor 4:3-4 : 3 Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish; 4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
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