The evil do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand everything.
John 8:43 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Why don’t you understand what I say? Because you cannot listen to my word. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Why do you misunderstand what I say? It is because you are unable to hear what I am saying. [You cannot bear to listen to My message; your ears are shut to My teaching.] American Standard Version (1901) Why do ye not understand my speech? Even because ye cannot hear my word. Common English Bible Why don’t you understand what I’m saying? It’s because you can’t really hear my words. Catholic Public Domain Version Why do you not recognize my speech? It is because you are not able to hear my word. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Why do you not know my speech? Because you cannot hear my word. |
The evil do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand everything.
Such people do not comprehend and cannot understand, for he has shut their eyes so that they cannot see, and their minds so that they cannot understand.
And he replied: Go! Say to these people: Keep listening, but do not understand; keep looking, but do not perceive.
Who can I speak to and give such a warning that they will listen? Look, their ear is uncircumcised, , so they cannot pay attention. See, the word of the Lord has become contemptible to them – they find no pleasure in it.
Let whoever is wise understand these things, and whoever is insightful recognise them. For the ways of the Lord are right, and the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them.
But they do not know the Lord’s intentions or understand his plan, that he has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing-floor.
For this people’s heart has grown callous; their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes; otherwise they might see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn back – and I would heal them. ,
‘Truly I tell you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
I have come in my Father’s name, and yet you don’t accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.
Therefore, when many of his disciples heard this, they said, ‘This teaching is hard. Who can accept it? ’
If anyone wants to do his will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own.
‘We are descendants of Abraham,’ they answered him, ‘and we have never been enslaved to anyone. How can you say, “You will become free”? ’
‘Our father is Abraham,’ they replied. ‘If you were Abraham’s children,’ Jesus told them, ‘you would do what Abraham did.
‘You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit. As your ancestors did, you do also.