John 8:43

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

wherefore do ye not know my speech? because ye are not able to hear my word.

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  • Jer 6:10 : 10 To whom do I speak, and testify, and they hear? Lo, their ear `is' uncircumcised, And they are not able to attend. Lo, a word of Jehovah hath been to them for a reproach, They delight not in it.
  • John 7:17 : 17 if any one may will to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or -- I do speak from myself.
  • John 8:27 : 27 They knew not that of the Father he spake to them;
  • John 12:39-40 : 39 Because of this they were not able to believe, that again Isaiah said, 40 `He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, that they might not see with the eyes, and understand with the heart, and turn back, and I might heal them;'
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 `Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers -- also ye;
  • Rom 3:11 : 11 There is none who is understanding, there is none who is seeking after God.
  • Rom 8:7-8 : 7 because the mind of the flesh `is' enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself, 8 for neither is it able; and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 Who `is' wise, and doth understand these? Prudent, and knoweth them? For upright are the ways of Jehovah, And the righteous go on in them, And the transgressors stumble therein!
  • Mic 4:12 : 12 They have not known the thoughts of Jehovah, Nor have they understood His counsel, For He hath gathered them as a sheaf `into' a threshing-floor.
  • John 5:43 : 43 `I have come in the name of my Father, and ye do not receive me; if another may come in his own name, him ye will receive;
  • John 6:60 : 60 many, therefore, of his disciples having heard, said, `This word is hard; who is able to hear it?'
  • Prov 28:5 : 5 Evil men understand not judgment, And those seeking Jehovah understand all.
  • Isa 6:9 : 9 And He saith, `Go, and thou hast said to this people, Hear ye -- to hear, and ye do not understand, And see ye -- to see, and ye do not know.
  • Isa 44:18 : 18 They have not known, nor do they understand, For He hath daubed their eyes from seeing, Their heart from acting wisely.

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  • John 8:44-49
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    83%

    44`Ye are of a father -- the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar -- also his father.

    45`And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me.

    46Who of you doth convict me of sin? and if I speak truth, wherefore do ye not believe me?

    47he who is of God, the sayings of God he doth hear; because of this ye do not hear, because of God ye are not.'

    48The Jews, therefore, answered and said to him, `Do we not say well, that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a demon?'

    49Jesus answered, `I have not a demon, but I honour my Father, and ye dishonour me;

  • John 8:37-42
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    78%

    37`I have known that ye are seed of Abraham, but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you;

    38I -- that which I have seen with my Father do speak, and ye, therefore, that which ye have seen with your father -- ye do.'

    39They answered and said to him, `Our father is Abraham;' Jesus saith to them, `If children of Abraham ye were, the works of Abraham ye were doing;

    40and now, ye seek to kill me -- a man who hath spoken to you the truth I heard from God; this Abraham did not;

    41ye do the works of your father.' They said, therefore, to him, `We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have -- God;'

    42Jesus then said to them, `If God were your father, ye were loving me, for I came forth from God, and am come; for neither have I come of myself, but He sent me;

  • John 5:38
    76%

    38and His word ye have not remaining in you, because whom He sent, him ye do not believe.

  • John 8:26-27
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    26many things I have to speak concerning you and to judge, but He who sent me is true, and I -- what things I heard from Him -- these I say to the world.'

    27They knew not that of the Father he spake to them;

  • Matt 13:13-14
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    76%

    13`Because of this, in similes do I speak to them, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor understand,

    14and fulfilled on them is the prophecy of Isaiah, that saith, With hearing ye shall hear, and ye shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and ye shall not perceive,

  • John 10:25-26
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    25Jesus answered them, `I told you, and ye do not believe; the works that I do in the name of my Father, these testify concerning me;

    26but ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep,

  • John 8:19-24
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    74%

    19They said, therefore, to him, `Where is thy father?' Jesus answered, `Ye have neither known me nor my Father: if me ye had known, my Father also ye had known.'

    20These sayings spake Jesus in the treasury, teaching in the temple, and no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come;

    21therefore said Jesus again to them, `I go away, and ye will seek me, and in your sin ye shall die; whither I go away, ye are not able to come.'

    22The Jews, therefore, said, `Will he kill himself, because he saith, Whither I go away, ye are not able to come?'

    23and he said to them, `Ye are from beneath, I am from above; ye are of this world, I am not of this world;

    24I said, therefore, to you, that ye shall die in your sins, for if ye may not believe that I am `he', ye shall die in your sins.'

  • Mark 8:21
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    21And he said to them, `How do ye not understand?'

  • Mark 8:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17And Jesus having known, saith to them, `Why do ye reason, because ye have no loaves? do ye not yet perceive, nor understand, yet have ye your heart hardened?

    18Having eyes, do ye not see? and having ears, do ye not hear? and do ye not remember?

  • John 10:6
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    6This similitude spake Jesus to them, and they knew not what the things were that he was speaking to them;

  • John 5:40
    72%

    40and ye do not will to come unto me, that ye may have life;

  • Matt 15:16
    72%

    16And Jesus said, `Are ye also yet without understanding?

  • 1 John 4:5
    72%

    5They -- of the world they are; because of this from the world they speak, and the world doth hear them;

  • John 14:24
    71%

    24he who is not loving me, my words doth not keep; and the word that ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

  • John 7:36
    71%

    36what is this word that he said, Ye will seek me, and ye shall not find? and, Where I am, ye are not able to come?'

  • John 16:3
    71%

    3and these things they will do to you, because they did not know the Father, nor me.

  • Acts 28:26
    71%

    26saying, Go on unto this people and say, With hearing ye shall hear, and ye shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and ye shall not perceive,

  • John 6:65
    71%

    65and he said, `Because of this I have said to you -- No one is able to come unto me, if it may not have been given him from my Father.'

  • John 8:52
    71%

    52The Jews, therefore, said to him, `Now we have known that thou hast a demon; Abraham did die, and the prophets, and thou dost say, If any one may keep my word, he shall not taste of death -- to the age!

  • John 3:11
    71%

    11`Verily, verily, I say to thee -- What we have known we speak, and what we have seen we testify, and our testimony ye do not receive;

  • John 7:7
    71%

    7the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.

  • John 7:34
    71%

    34ye will seek me, and ye shall not find; and where I am, ye are not able to come.'

  • Matt 13:10
    70%

    10And the disciples having come near, said to him, `Wherefore in similes dost thou speak to them?'

  • Luke 6:46
    70%

    46`And why do ye call me, Lord, Lord, and do not what I say?

  • John 5:42
    70%

    42but I have known you, that the love of God ye have not in yourselves.

  • Mark 4:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12that seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest they may turn, and the sins may be forgiven them.'

    13And he saith to them, `Have ye not known this simile? and how shall ye know all the similes?

  • John 8:14
    70%

    14Jesus answered and said to them, `And if I testify of myself -- my testimony is true, because I have known whence I came, and whither I go, and ye -- ye have not known whence I come, or whither I go.

  • John 16:18
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    18they said then, `What is this he saith -- the little while? we have not known what he saith.'

  • Isa 6:9
    70%

    9And He saith, `Go, and thou hast said to this people, Hear ye -- to hear, and ye do not understand, And see ye -- to see, and ye do not know.

  • John 8:55
    69%

    55and ye have not known Him, and I have known Him, and if I say that I have not known Him, I shall be like you -- speaking falsely; but I have known Him, and His word I keep;