Parallel Verses

NET Bible

Why don't you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.

New American Standard Bible

Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word.

King James Version

Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

Holman Bible

Why don’t you understand what I say? Because you cannot listen to My word.

International Standard Version

Why don't you understand what I've said? It's because you can't listen to my words.

A Conservative Version

Why do ye not understand my speech? Because ye cannot hear my word.

American Standard Version

Why do ye not understand my speech? Even because ye cannot hear my word.

Amplified

Why do you misunderstand what I am saying? It is because [your spiritual ears are deaf and] you are unable to hear [the truth of] My word.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Why
διά 
Dia 
by, through, with, for, for ... sake, therefore , for this cause , because,
Usage: 527

do ye
γινώσκω 
Ginosko 
Usage: 147

not
οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032

γινώσκω 
Ginosko 
Usage: 147

my
ἐμός 
Emos 
ἐμός 
Emos 
my, mine, mine own, of me, I
my, mine, mine own, of me, I
Usage: 25
Usage: 25

λαλιά 
Lalia 
Usage: 3

ὅτι 
Hoti 
Usage: 764

ye
ἀκούω 
Akouo 
Usage: 313

οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032

ἀκούω 
Akouo 
Usage: 313

References

Context Readings

The Priority Of Jesus Over Abraham

42 Jesus replied, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me. 43 Why don't you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching. 44 You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.



Cross References

Jeremiah 6:10

I answered, "Who would listen if I spoke to them and warned them? Their ears are so closed that they cannot hear! Indeed, what the Lord says is offensive to them. They do not like it at all.

John 7:17

If anyone wants to do God's will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.

Proverbs 28:5

Evil people do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it all.

Isaiah 6:9

He said, "Go and tell these people: 'Listen continually, but don't understand! Look continually, but don't perceive!'

Isaiah 44:18

They do not comprehend or understand, for their eyes are blind and cannot see; their minds do not discern.

Hosea 14:9

Who is wise? Let him discern these things! Who is discerning? Let him understand them! For the ways of the Lord are right; the godly walk in them, but in them the rebellious stumble.

Micah 4:12

But they do not know what the Lord is planning; they do not understand his strategy. He has gathered them like stalks of grain to be threshed at the threshing floor.

John 5:43

I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

John 6:60

Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said, "This is a difficult saying! Who can understand it?"

John 8:27

(They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)

John 12:39-40

For this reason they could not believe, because again Isaiah said,

Acts 7:51

"You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!

Romans 3:11

there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God.

Romans 8:7-8

because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.

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