John 12:39

Isaiah revealed the reason they could not believe:

John 5:44

How can you believe? You seek praise and glory from one another? Why do you not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

Isaiah 6:9-10

He said: Go and tell this people: 'Hear constantly but do not understand. See constantly but do not perceive.'

Isaiah 44:18-20

They do not know or understand anything. Their eyes are plastered shut and cannot see. Their minds are closed and therefore they cannot understand.

John 6:44

No man can come to me unless the Father, who sent me, draws him. I will resurrect him (raise him up) in the last day.

John 10:38

But if I do them and you do not believe me, believe the works! That way you may know and understand that the Father is with me, and I am with the Father.

2 Peter 2:14

They have eyes full of adultery that cannot cease from sin! They entice unsteady persons. Their hearts are full of covetousness. They are children of cursing.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,

Bible References

They

John 5:44
How can you believe? You seek praise and glory from one another? Why do you not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
John 6:44
No man can come to me unless the Father, who sent me, draws him. I will resurrect him (raise him up) in the last day.
John 10:38
But if I do them and you do not believe me, believe the works! That way you may know and understand that the Father is with me, and I am with the Father.
Isaiah 44:18
They do not know or understand anything. Their eyes are plastered shut and cannot see. Their minds are closed and therefore they cannot understand.
2 Peter 2:14
They have eyes full of adultery that cannot cease from sin! They entice unsteady persons. Their hearts are full of covetousness. They are children of cursing.

General references

Exodus 10:20
But Jehovah made the king stubborn. He did not let the Israelites go.
Deuteronomy 29:4
To this very day Jehovah has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
John 1:5
His light shines through darkness and it cannot be extinguished.
John 9:18
The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and then received his sight. So they called his parents.
John 10:37
If I am not doing the works of my Father, do not believe me.