John 8:43

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Why don’t you understand what I say? Because you cannot listen to   my word.

Cross References

John 5:43

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.

John 7:17

If anyone wants to do his will,   he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own.

Acts 7:51

‘You stiff-necked  people with uncircumcised hearts and ears!  You are always resisting the Holy Spirit. As your ancestors did, you do also.

John 6:60

Therefore, when many of his disciples heard this, they said, ‘This teaching is hard. Who can accept  it? ’

John 8:27

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

Jeremiah 6:10

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.

Proverbs 28:5

The evil do not understand justice, but those who seek the  Lord understand everything.

Isaiah 44:18

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.

Isaiah 6:9

And he replied: Go! Say to these people: Keep listening, but do not understand; keep looking, but do not perceive.

Micah 4:12

But they do not know the  Lord’s intentions or understand his plan, that he has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing-floor.

Hosea 14:9

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.

Romans 3:11

There is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God.

Matthew 13:15

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.   ,

John 5:25

‘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.

John 8:33

‘We are descendants  of Abraham,’  they answered him, ‘and we have never been enslaved to anyone. How can you say, “You will become free”? ’

John 8:39

‘Our father is Abraham,’ they replied. ‘If you were Abraham’s children,’ Jesus told them, ‘you would do what Abraham did.