Parallel Verses
Goodspeed New Testament
They did not understand that he was speaking to them of the Father.
New American Standard Bible
They did not realize that He had been speaking to them about the Father.
King James Version
They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.
Holman Bible
They did not know He was speaking to them about the Father.
International Standard Version
They didn't realize that he was talking to them about the Father.
A Conservative Version
They did not understand that he spoke the Father to them.
American Standard Version
They perceived not that he spake to them of the Father.
Amplified
They did not realize [or have the spiritual insight to understand] that He was speaking to them about the Father.
An Understandable Version
The people [who heard this] did not understand that Jesus was speaking to them about the Father.
Anderson New Testament
They knew not that he was speaking to them of the Father.
Bible in Basic English
They did not see that his words were about the Father.
Common New Testament
They did not understand that he spoke to them of the Father.
Daniel Mace New Testament
but they did not perceive that he meant the father.
Darby Translation
They knew not that he spoke to them of the Father.
Godbey New Testament
They did not know that He spoke to them concerning the Father.
John Wesley New Testament
They understood not, that he spake to them of the Father.
Julia Smith Translation
They knew not that he spake to them of the Father.
King James 2000
They understood not that he spoke to them of the Father.
Lexham Expanded Bible
(They did not know that he was speaking to them about the Father.)
Modern King James verseion
They did not understand that He spoke to them of the Father.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Howbeit, they understood not that he spake of his father.
Moffatt New Testament
They did not understand he was speaking to them about the Father;
Montgomery New Testament
They did not understand that he meant the Father,
NET Bible
(They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)
New Heart English Bible
They did not understand that he spoke to them about the Father.
Noyes New Testament
They understood not that he spoke to them of the Father.
Sawyer New Testament
They understood not that he spoke to them of the Father.
The Emphasized Bible
They noted not that, as touching the Father, unto them, he was speaking.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
They knew not that he spake to them of the Father.
Twentieth Century New Testament
They did not understand that he meant the Father.
Webster
They understood not that he spoke to them concerning the Father.
Weymouth New Testament
They did not perceive that He was speaking to them of the Father.
Williams New Testament
They did not understand that He was speaking to them about the Father.
World English Bible
They didn't understand that he spoke to them about the Father.
Worrell New Testament
They perceived not that He was speaking to them of the Father.
Worsley New Testament
But they did not know that He spake unto them of the Father.
Youngs Literal Translation
They knew not that of the Father he spake to them;
Themes
Jesus Christ » What jesus Christ speaks
Jesus Christ » Jesus Christ doing the will of God the father
Interlinear
Word Count of 37 Translations in John 8:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jesus Predicts His Death
26 "Why do I even talk to you at all? I have a great deal to say about you and to condemn in you, yet he who sent me is truthful, and the things that I say to the world are things that I have learned from him." 27 They did not understand that he was speaking to them of the Father. 28 So Jesus said, "When you lift the Son of Man up in the air, then you will know that I am what I say, and that I do nothing of my own accord, but speak as the Father has instructed me.
Names
Cross References
John 8:43
Why is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my message.
John 8:47
Whoever is sprung from God listens to God's words. The reason you refuse to listen is that you are not sprung from God."
Romans 11:7-10
What follows? Israel failed to get what it sought, but those whom God selected got it.
2 Corinthians 4:3-4
If the meaning of my preaching of the good news is veiled at all, it is so only in the case of those who are on the way to destruction.