John 8:43 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴³Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

John 8:43 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 12:39-40
Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again, …
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 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.
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. …
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.

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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, according…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 43)

42-43. If God were your Father, ye would love me--“If ye had anything of His moral image, as children have their father’s likeness, ye would love Me, for I am immediately of Him and directly from Him.” But “My speech” (meaning His peculiar style of expressing Himself on these subjects) is unintelligible to you because ye cannot take in the truth which it conveys.