John 8:27

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

They did not understand who he was talking about. He was telling them about the Father.

Cross References

Isaiah 6:9

Then the Lord said, “Go and tell the people, ‘Listen closely, but don’t understand. Look closely, but don’t learn.’

John 8:47

Whoever belongs to God accepts what he says. But you don’t accept what God says, because you don’t belong to God.”

John 8:43

You don’t understand the things I say, because you cannot accept my teaching.

Isaiah 59:10

We are like people without eyes. We walk into walls like blind people. We stumble and fall as if it was night. Even in the daylight, we cannot see. At noontime, we fall like dead men.

John 8:26

I have much more I could say to judge you. But I tell people only what I have heard from the one who sent me, and he speaks the truth.”

John 8:28

So he said to them, “You will lift up the Son of Man. Then you will know that I AM. You will know that whatever I do is not by my own authority. You will know that I say only what the Father has taught me.