John 8:43 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴³ Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴³ Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴³ 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)

⁴³ Why do ye not understand my speech? Even because ye cannot hear my word.

Common English Bible

⁴³ Why don’t you understand what I’m saying? It’s because you can’t really hear my words.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴³ 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

⁴³ Why do you not know my speech? Because you cannot hear my word.

John 8:43 Cross References

Proverbs 28:5

Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it completely.

Isaiah 44:18

They know not, nor do they discern; for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their minds, so that they cannot understand.

Isaiah 6:9

And he said, “Go, and say to this people: “ ‘Hear and hear, but do not understand; see and see, but do not perceive.’

Jeremiah 6:10

To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are closed, they cannot listen; behold, the word of the Lord is to them an object of scorn, they take no pleasure in it.

Hosea 14:9

Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the Lord are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.

Micah 4:12

But they do not know the thoughts of the Lord, they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.

Matthew 13:15

For this people's heart has grown dull, and their ears are heavy of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should perceive with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn for me to heal them.’

John 5:25

“Truly, truly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

John 5:43

I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive.

John 6:60

Many of his disciples, when they heard it, said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?”

John 7:17

if any man's will is to do his will, he shall know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.

John 8:27

They did not understand that he spoke to them of the Father.

John 8:33

They answered him, “We are descendants of Abraham, and have never been in bondage to any one. How is it that you say, ‘You will be made free’?”

John 8:39

They answered him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham's children, you would do what Abraham did,

Acts 7:51

“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.

Romans 3:11

no one understands, no one seeks for God.