Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Why do ye not understand my speech? Because ye cannot hear my word.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
Why don't you understand what I've said? It's because you can't listen to my words.
American Standard Version
Why do ye not understand my speech? Even because ye cannot hear my word.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
Why do you people not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot [bear to] listen to my message.
Anderson New Testament
Why do you not know what I say? Because you can not understand my words.
Bible in Basic English
Why are my words not clear to you? It is because your ears are shut to my teaching.
Common New Testament
Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you are not able to hear my word.
Daniel Mace New Testament
why do not you understand my language? unless because ye cannot bear my doctrine?
Darby Translation
Why do ye not know my speech? Because ye cannot hear my word.
Godbey New Testament
Wherefore do you not understand my speech? Because you are not able to hear my word.
Goodspeed New Testament
Why is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my message.
John Wesley New Testament
Why do ye not understand my discourse? Even because ye cannot hear my word.
Julia Smith Translation
Wherefore ye know not my speech, for ye cannot hear my word.
King James 2000
Why do you not understand my speech? even because you cannot hear my word.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{Why} do you not understand my way of speaking? Because you are not able to listen to my message.
Modern King James verseion
Why do you not know My speech? Because you cannot hear My Word.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Why do ye not know my speech? Even because ye cannot abide the hearing of my words.
Moffatt New Testament
Why do you not understand my speech? Because you are unable to listen to what I am saying.
Montgomery New Testament
"How is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot listen to my message.
NET Bible
Why don't you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.
New Heart English Bible
Why do you not understand my speech? Because you cannot hear my word.
Noyes New Testament
Why do ye not understand my language? It is because ye cannot listen to my word.
Sawyer New Testament
Why do you not understand my speech? because you cannot hear my word.
The Emphasized Bible
Wherefore, is it, that, my speech, ye do not understand? because ye cannot hear my word.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Wherefore do ye not understand my speech? because ye cannot hear my word.
Twentieth Century New Testament
How is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my Message.
Webster
Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
Weymouth New Testament
How is it you do not understand me when I speak? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my words.
Williams New Testament
Why is it that you misunderstand what I say? It is because you cannot listen to what I teach.
World English Bible
Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word.
Worrell New Testament
Why do ye not understand My speech? it is because ye cannot hear My word.
Worsley New Testament
And why do ye not understand my language, but because ye cannot bear my doctrine?
Youngs Literal Translation
wherefore do ye not know my speech? because ye are not able to hear my word.
Themes
Devil/devils » Who is of the devil
Jesus Christ » The words that jesus Christ spoke
Self-righteousness » Instances of » Pharisees
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Dullness, condemned
Topics
Interlinear
Dia
Emos
ἐμός
Emos
Usage: 25
References
Morish
Word Count of 37 Translations in John 8:43
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Priority Of Jesus Over Abraham
42 Therefore Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, ye would love me, for I came forth and have come from God. For, neither have I come for myself, but he sent me. 43 Why do ye not understand my speech? Because ye cannot hear my word. 44 Ye are from the father, the devil, and ye want to do the desires of your father. He was a man-killer from the beginning, and he has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 6:10
To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken. Behold, the word of LORD has become to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
John 7:17
If any man wants to do his will, he will know about the doctrine, whether it is from God, or I speak from myself.
Proverbs 28:5
Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek LORD understand all things.
Isaiah 6:9
And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but do not understand, and see ye indeed, but do not perceive.
Isaiah 44:18
They do not know, nor do they consider. For he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see, and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
Hosea 14:9
Who is wise, that he may understand these things, prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them. But transgressors shall fall therein.
Micah 4:12
But they know not the thoughts of LORD, nor do they understand his counsel, for he has gathered them as the sheaves to the threshing-floor.
John 5:43
I have come in my Father's name, and ye do not accept me. If another man should come in his own name, ye will accept that man.
John 6:60
Therefore many of his disciples having heard, said, This is a hard saying. Who can listen to it?
John 8:27
They did not understand that he spoke the Father to them.
John 12:39-40
Because of this they could not believe. Because Isaiah said again,
Acts 7:51
Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers, ye also.
Romans 3:11
There is no man who understands. There is no man who seeks God.
Romans 8:7-8
Because the mentality of the flesh is enmity against God, for it is not submissive to the law of God, for neither is it able.