Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
wherefore do ye not know my speech? because ye are not able to 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.
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?
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 Jesus then said to them, 'If God were your father, ye were loving me, for I came forth from God, and am come; for neither have I come of myself, but He sent me; 43 wherefore do ye not know my speech? because ye are not able to hear my word. 44 Ye are of a father -- the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar -- also his father.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 6:10
To whom do I speak, and testify, and they hear? Lo, their ear is uncircumcised, And they are not able to attend. Lo, a word of Jehovah hath been to them for a reproach, They delight not in it.
John 7:17
if any one may will to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or -- I do speak from myself.
Proverbs 28:5
Evil men understand not judgment, And those seeking Jehovah understand all.
Isaiah 6:9
And He saith, 'Go, and thou hast said to this people, Hear ye -- to hear, and ye do not understand, And see ye -- to see, and ye do not know.
Isaiah 44:18
They have not known, nor do they understand, For He hath daubed their eyes from seeing, Their heart from acting wisely.
Hosea 14:9
Who is wise, and doth understand these? Prudent, and knoweth them? For upright are the ways of Jehovah, And the righteous go on in them, And the transgressors stumble therein!
Micah 4:12
They have not known the thoughts of Jehovah, Nor have they understood His counsel, For He hath gathered them as a sheaf into a threshing-floor.
John 5:43
'I have come in the name of my Father, and ye do not receive me; if another may come in his own name, him ye will receive;
John 6:60
many, therefore, of his disciples having heard, said, 'This word is hard; who is able to hear it?'
John 8:27
They knew not that of the Father he spake to them;
John 12:39-40
Because of this they were not able to believe, that again Isaiah said,
Acts 7:51
Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers -- also ye;
Romans 3:11
There is none who is understanding, there is none who is seeking after God.
Romans 8:7-8
because the mind of the flesh is enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,