John 8:43

World English Bible (2000)

Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word.

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  • Jer 6:10 : 10 To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can't listen. Behold, the word of Yahweh has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.
  • John 7:17 : 17 If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.
  • John 8:27 : 27 They didn't understand that he spoke to them about the Father.
  • John 12:39-40 : 39 For this cause they couldn't believe, for Isaiah said again, 40 "He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would 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 you do.
  • Rom 3:11 : 11 There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.
  • Rom 8:7-8 : 7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be. 8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
  • Mic 4:12 : 12 But they don't know the thoughts of Yahweh, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.
  • John 5:43 : 43 I have come in my Father's name, and you don't receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
  • John 6:60 : 60 Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?"
  • Prov 28:5 : 5 Evil men don't understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.
  • 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 44:18 : 18 They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand.

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    44 You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

    45 But because I tell the truth, you don't believe me.

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

    47 He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don't hear, because you are not of God."

    48 Then the Jews answered him, "Don't we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?"

    49 Jesus answered, "I don't have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

  • John 8:37-42
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    37 I know that you are Abraham's seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.

    38 I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father."

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

    40 But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn't do this.

    41 You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."

    42 Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven't come of myself, but he sent me.

  • John 5:38
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    38 You don't have his word living in you; because you don't believe him whom he sent.

  • John 8:26-27
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    26 I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world."

    27 They didn't understand that he spoke to them about the Father.

  • Matt 13:13-14
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    13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.

    14 In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, 'By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:

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

    26 But you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.

  • John 8:19-24
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    19 They said therefore to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also."

    20 Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

    21 Jesus said therefore again to them, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can't come."

    22 The Jews therefore said, "Will he kill himself, that he says, 'Where I am going, you can't come?'"

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

    24 I said therefore to 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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    21 He asked them, "Don't you understand, yet?"

  • Mark 8:17-18
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    17 Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, "Why do you reason that it's because you have no bread? Don't you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened?

    18 Having eyes, don't you see? Having ears, don't you hear? Don't you remember?

  • John 10:6
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    6 Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn't understand what he was telling them.

  • John 5:40
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    40 Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

  • Matt 15:16
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    16 So Jesus said, "Do you also still not understand?

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    5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

  • John 14:24
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    24 He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me.

  • John 7:36
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    36 What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come'?"

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

  • Acts 28:26
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    26 saying, 'Go to this people, and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.

  • John 6:65
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    65 He said, "For this cause have I said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father."

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

  • John 3:11
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    11 Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don't receive our witness.

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

  • John 7:34
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    34 You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come."

  • Matt 13:10
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    10 The disciples came, and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"

  • Luke 6:46
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    46 "Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and don't do the things which I say?

  • John 5:42
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    42 But I know you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves.

  • Mark 4:12-13
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    12 that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'"

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

  • John 8:14
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    14 Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don't know where I came from, or where I am going.

  • John 16:18
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    18 They said therefore, "What is this that he says, 'A little while?' We don't know what he is saying."

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    9 He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed, but don't understand; and you see indeed, but don't perceive.'

  • John 8:55
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    55 You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word.