John 8:27

New Century Version

The people did not understand that he was talking to them about the Father.

Cross References

Isaiah 59:10

We are like the blind feeling our way along a wall. We feel our way as if we had no eyes. In the brightness of day we trip as if it were night. We are like dead men among the strong.

Isaiah 6:9

Then the Lord said, “Go and tell this to the people: ‘You will listen and listen, but you will not understand. You will look and look, but you will not learn.’

John 8:26

I have many things to say and decide about you. But I tell people only the things I have heard from the One who sent me, and he speaks the truth.”

John 8:28

So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, you will know that I am he. You will know that these things I do are not by my own authority but that I say only what the Father has taught me.

John 8:43

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

John 8:47

The person who belongs to God accepts what God says. But you don’t accept what God says, because you don’t belong to God.”