Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
Why do you not understand my speech? Because you 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.
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
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.
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, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I have not come of myself, but he sent me. 43 Why do you not understand my speech? Because you cannot hear my word. 44 You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.
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 can't listen. Behold, the word of the LORD has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.
John 7:17
If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.
Proverbs 28:5
Evil men do not understand justice; but those who seek the LORD understand it fully.
Isaiah 6:9
He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed, but do not understand; and you see indeed, but do not perceive.'
Isaiah 44:18
They do not know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand.
Hosea 14:9
Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
Micah 4:12
But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.
John 5:43
I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
John 6:60
Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying. Who can listen to it?"
John 8:27
They did not understand that he spoke to them about the Father.
John 12:39-40
For this cause they could not believe, for Isaiah said again,
Acts 7:51
"You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so you do.
Romans 3:11
There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.
Romans 8:7-8
because the mind set on the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.