John 8:43 · KJV
“Why do ye not understand my speech? {even} because ye cannot hear my word.”
— John 8:43
Jesus said unto 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.
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. {of his own: or, from his own will or disposition}
John 8 — Context
Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, {even} God.
42Jesus said unto 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.
43Why do ye not understand my speech? {even} because ye cannot hear my word.
44Ye 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. {of his own: or, from his own will or disposition}
45And because I tell {you} the truth, ye believe me not.
Cross References
John 7:17
If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or {whether} I speak of myself.
John 5:43
I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
John 12:39-40
Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,
Romans 8:7-8
Because the carnal mind {is} enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. {the carnal...: Gr. the minding of the flesh}
Proverbs 28:5
Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all {things}.
John 6:60
Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard {this}, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
Acts 7:51
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers {did}, so {do} ye.
John 8:27
They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.