John 8:27

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Isaiah 6:9

And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but do not understand, and see ye indeed, but do not perceive.

John 8:47

He who is of God hears the sayings of God. Because of this ye do not hear, because ye are not of God.

John 8:43

Why do ye not understand my speech? Because ye cannot hear my word.

Isaiah 59:10

We grope for the wall like the blind. Yea, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noonday as in the twilight. [We are] as dead men in desolate places.

John 8:26

I have many things to say and to judge about you. But he who sent me is true, and I speak to the world these things that I heard from him.

John 8:28

Jesus therefore said to them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then ye will know that I am he, and I do nothing from myself, but I speak these things as my Father taught me.