43Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again, …
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.
If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. …
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 38-47)Here Christ and the Jews are still at issue; he sets himself to convince and convert them, while they still set themselves to contradict and oppose him. I. He here traces the difference between his sentiments and theirs to a different rise and origin (John 8:38): I speak that which I have seen with my Father , and you do what you have seen with your father . Here are two fathers spoken of, accordi…
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