Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot bear to accept my word.
For the heart of this people has become dull; with their ears they have barely heard, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn back, and I would heal them.’
“Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live.
I have come in the name of my Father, and yet you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
After hearing this, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard saying; who can accept it?”
If anyone wants to do his will, he will know whether my teaching comes from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.
(They did not know that he was speaking to them about the Father.)
They answered him, “We are descendants of Abraham, and we have never been enslaved to anyone. How then can yoʋ say, ‘You will be set free’?”
They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were children of Abraham, you would be doing the works of Abraham.
“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do also.
there is none who understands; there is none who seeks after God.