John 8:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They did not understand that he was speaking to them about the Father.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

They did not perceive (know, understand) that He was speaking to them about the Father.

American Standard Version (1901)

They perceived not that he spake to them of the Father.

Common English Bible

They didn’t know he was speaking about his Father.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And they did not realize that he was calling God his Father.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And they understood not, that he called God his Father.

John 8:27 Cross References

Isaiah 59:10

We grope like the blind along a wall, groping like those who have no eyes; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among the vigorous as though we were dead.

Isaiah 6:9

And he said, “Go and say to this people: ‘Keep listening, but do not comprehend; keep looking, but do not understand.’

John 8:26

I have much to say about you and much to condemn, but the one who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.”

John 8:28

So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I am he and that I do nothing on my own, but I speak these things as the Father instructed me.

John 8:43

Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot accept my word.

John 8:47

Whoever is from God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear them is that you are not from God.”