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John 8:43
Why do ye not understand my speech? [even] because ye cannot hear my word.
John 8:43 · Webster Bible
John 8:43 in other translations
Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message.
Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.
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In context
40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard from God: this did not Abraham.
41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one Father, [even] God.
42 Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
43 Why do ye not understand my speech? [even] because ye cannot hear my word.
44 Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do: he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
45 And because I tell [you] the truth, ye believe me not.
46 Which of you convicteth me of sin? And if I speak the truth, why do ye not believe me?
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