“ Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. ”
Why do ye not ... - My meaning is clear, if you were disposed to understand me. Even because ye cannot hear my word - The word “hear” in this place is to be understood in the sense of bear or...
Why do ye not understand my (k) speech? [even] because ye cannot hear my word. (k) Or, language: as though he said, "You do not understand what I say any more than if I spoke in a strange and unknow...
Controversy with the Jews who Believed. Many are convinced by this appeal. The following section summarises the teaching by which Jesus tried to bring the more favourably disposed of the Jewish par...
understand . get to know. App-132. speech. Referring to the form of the discourse. hear. Hebrew idiom. understand, receive, or believe, as in John 9:27 ; John 10:3 ; John 12:47 ; Acts 3:...
43. Why do you not understand my language? In this passage, he reproaches the Jews with their obstinacy, which was so great, that they could not even endure to hear him speak Hence he inf...
Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. Why do ye not understand my speech? - Την λαλιαν την εμην, This my mode of speaking - when illustrating spiritual by natural...
Why do ye not understand my speech, &c.?— The latter clause of this verse may likewise be translated and pointed interrogatively; Why do ye not understand my speech, λαλιαν,— the spiritual st...
Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word: - q.d., 'If ye had anything of His moral imag...
The Feast of Tabernacles Continued. Christ the Light of the World John 7:53 to John 8:11 . The woman taken in adultery. All modern critics agree that this section is no original part of the Fou...
Why do ye not understand my speech,... my word. — The distinction between “speech” (the form) and “word” (the matter which was spoken) is rightly preserved. Comp. John 12:48 , “the word that I hav...
Chapter 19 JESUS REJECTED IN JERUSALEM. “He said therefore again unto them, I go away, and ye shall seek Me, and shall die in your sin: whither I go, ye cannot come. The Jews therefore said, Will...
the Test of Sonship John 8:39-47 Godly ancestors and parents will avail nothing, unless we are animated by their spirit and do their works. There were in the old world two families that ran in...
The end of chapter 7 is closely linked with this, in that after declaring "every man went to his own house," the writer said, "But Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives." Here we have the story of a r...
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...
Why do ye not understand my speech ?.... Language, idiom, dialect, and form of speaking, in a figurative way; for they did not know what he meant by liberty, and bondage, and by having another fathe...
Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. Ver. 43. Why do ye not understand my speech? ] Any more than if I spake to you in a strange language. So many of our hea...
Ye do the deeds of your father By your deeds ye show whose children ye are. They said, We be not born of fornication We are not bastard Jews, a mixed, spurious blood, descended from Gentile idola...
A WOMAN CAUGHT IN ADULTERY (vs.1-11) While others went to their homes, the Lord spent the night in the mount of Olives, away from all the words and thoughts of men, in the calm of His Father's pr...
Christ's Discourse with the Pharisees. 38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with you...
It is manifest all along this discourse, that Christ spake riddles to the Jews, and that they understood not the import and sense of his discourse: Now (saith our Saviour) the reason is, because ye...
Chapter 8 Jesus - The Light of the World and the ‘I am' ( John 8:12-59 ). In this chapter Jesus is revealed as ‘the Light of the World'. This is a reminder of the one spoken of in the words of Isa...
EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 8:13 . They forgot His vindication of Himself ( John 5:31-37 ). John 8:14 . Even if I bear record, etc. —Although He was content to let the Father witness o...
John 8:28 . Then said Jesus unto them; That is, to the Jews who were questioning and opposing him,- John 8:28 . When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and tha...
John 8:1 . Jesus went to the mount of Olives, where it is probable he slept in some booth in the gardens; and returned early to the temple, to preach to the people, before the commencement of publ...
Then said Jesus unto those Jews which believed on Him. A glorious liberator I. FREEDOM PROFFERED. 1. Sin makes bondage ( John 8:34 ; Matthew 6:24 ; Luke 16:13 ; Romans 6:16-17 ; Galatian...
EXPOSITION Verses 7:53-8:11 (8) The pericope adulterae. (a) Excursus on the genuineness of John 7:53-43 John 7:53-43 John 7:53-43 . It is our duty to examine the various grounds on...
The true ancestry of the Jews:
Acts 7:51 ; Hosea 14:9 ; Isaiah 44:18 ; Isaiah 6:9 ; Jeremiah 6:10 ; John 12:39 ; John 12:40 ; John 5:43 ; John 6:60 ; John 7:17 ; John 8:27 ; Micah 4:12 ; Proverbs 28:5 ; Romans 3:11 ;...
Ye cannot — Such is your stubbornness and pride, hear — Receive, obey my word. Not being desirous to do my will, ye cannot understand my doctrine, John 7:17 .