John 8:43

New Living Translation

Why can’t you understand what I am saying? It’s because you can’t even hear me!

Cross References

Proverbs 28:5

Evil people don’t understand justice, but those who follow the Lord understand completely.

Isaiah 44:18

Such stupidity and ignorance! Their eyes are closed, and they cannot see. Their minds are shut, and they cannot think.

Isaiah 6:9

And he said, “Yes, go, and say to this people, ‘Listen carefully, but do not understand. Watch closely, but learn nothing.’

Jeremiah 6:10

To whom can I give warning? Who will listen when I speak? Their ears are closed, and they cannot hear. They scorn the word of the Lord. They don’t want to listen at all.

Hosea 14:9

Let those who are wise understand these things. Let those with discernment listen carefully. The paths of the Lord are true and right, and righteous people live by walking in them. But in those paths sinners stumble and fall.

Micah 4:12

But they do not know the Lord’s thoughts or understand his plan. These nations don’t know that he is gathering them together to be beaten and trampled like sheaves of grain on a threshing floor.

Matthew 13:15

For the hearts of these people are hardened, and their ears cannot hear, and they have closed their eyes— so their eyes cannot see, and their ears cannot hear, and their hearts cannot understand, and they cannot turn to me and let me heal them.’

John 5:25

“And I assure you that the time is coming, indeed it’s here now, when the dead will hear my voice—the voice of the Son of God. And those who listen will live.

John 5:43

For I have come to you in my Father’s name, and you have rejected me. Yet if others come in their own name, you gladly welcome them.

John 6:60

Many of his disciples said, “This is very hard to understand. How can anyone accept it?”

John 7:17

Anyone who wants to do the will of God will know whether my teaching is from God or is merely my own.

John 8:27

But they still didn’t understand that he was talking about his Father.

John 8:33

“But we are descendants of Abraham,” they said. “We have never been slaves to anyone. What do you mean, ‘You will be set free’?”

John 8:39

“Our father is Abraham!” they declared. “No,” Jesus replied, “for if you were really the children of Abraham, you would follow his example.

Acts 7:51

“You stubborn people! You are heathen at heart and deaf to the truth. Must you forever resist the Holy Spirit? That’s what your ancestors did, and so do you!

Romans 3:11

No one is truly wise; no one is seeking God.