John 8:43

New English Translation

Why don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.

Cross References

Proverbs 28:5

Evil people do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it all.

Isaiah 44:18

They do not comprehend or understand, for their eyes are blind and cannot see; their minds do not discern.

Isaiah 6:9

He said, “Go and tell these people: ‘Listen continually, but don’t understand! Look continually, but don’t perceive!’

Jeremiah 6:10

I answered, “Who would listen if I spoke to them and warned them? Their ears are so closed that they cannot hear! Indeed, what the Lord says is offensive to them. They do not like it at all.

Hosea 14:9

Who is wise? Let him discern these things! Who is discerning? Let him understand them! For the ways of the Lord are right; the godly walk in them, but in them the rebellious stumble.

Micah 4:12

But they do not know what the Lord is planning; they do not understand his strategy. He has gathered them like stalks of grain to be threshed at the threshing floor.

Matthew 13:15

For the heart of this people has become dull; they are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’

John 5:25

I tell you the solemn truth, a time 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 5:43

I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

John 6:60

Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said, “This is a difficult saying! Who can understand it?”

John 7:17

If anyone wants to do God’s will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.

John 8:27

(They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)

John 8:33

“We are descendants of Abraham,” they replied, “and have never been anyone’s slaves! How can you say, ‘You will become free’?”

John 8:39

They answered him, “Abraham is our father!” Jesus replied, “If you are Abraham’s children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham.

Acts 7:51

“You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!

Romans 3:11

there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God.