John 8:27

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Isaiah 59:10

We grope like the blind along a wall, groping like those who have no eyes; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among the vigorous as though we were dead.

Isaiah 6:9

And he said, “Go and say to this people: ‘Keep listening, but do not comprehend; keep looking, but do not understand.’

John 8:26

I have much to say about you and much to condemn, but the one who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.”

John 8:28

So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I am he and that I do nothing on my own, but I speak these things as the Father instructed me.

John 8:43

Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot accept my word.

John 8:47

Whoever is from God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear them is that you are not from God.”