John 8:43 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴³ “Why do you not know what I say? Because you are unable 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.

John 8:43 Cross References

Proverbs 28:5

Evil men do not understand right-ruling, But those who seek יהוה  understand all.

Isaiah 44:18

They do not know nor understand, for He has smeared their eyes from seeing, and their hearts from understanding.

Isaiah 6:9

And He said, “Go, and you shall say to this people, ‘Hearing, you hear, but do not understand; and seeing, you see, but do not know.’

Jeremiah 6:10

To whom shall I speak and give warning, so that they hear? See, their ear is uncircumcised, and they are unable to listen. See, the word of יהוה  is a reproach to them, they do not delight in it.

Hosea 14:9

Who is wise and understands these words, discerning and knows them? For the ways of יהוה  are straight, and the righteous walk in them, but the transgressors stumble in them.

Micah 4:12

But they do not know the thoughts of יהוה, nor do they understand His counsel. For He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing-floor.

Matthew 13:15

for the heart of this people has become thickened, and their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their heart, and turn back, and I heal them.’

John 5:25

“Truly, truly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of Elohim. And those having heard shall 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 would receive.

John 6:60

Therefore many of His taught ones having heard, said, “This word is hard, who is able to hear it?”

John 7:17

“If anyone desires to do His desire, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is from Elohim, or whether I speak from Myself.

John 8:27

They did not know that He spoke to them of the Father.

John 8:33

They answered Him, “We are the seed of Aḇ

John 8:39

They answered and said to Him, “Aḇ

Acts 7:51

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Set-apart Spirit, as your fathers did, you also do.

Romans 3:11

“There is no one who is understanding, there is none who is seeking Elohim.