They didn’t understand that He was talking to them about the Father.
We grope along the wall like the blind. We grope like those with no eyes. We stumble at noon as at twilight. We are like the dead in desolation.
Then He said: “Go! Tell this people: ‘Hear without understanding, and see without perceiving.’
I have much to say and judge about you. But the One who sent Me is true, and I tell the world what I heard from Him.”
So Yeshua said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know who I am. I do nothing by Myself, but speak just what the Father has taught Me.
Why don’t you understand My speech? Because you’re not able to hear My word!
He who belongs to God hears the words of God. The reason you don’t hear is because you do not belong to God.”