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John 8:27
John 8:27 is verse 27 of John chapter 8, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
They did not understand that He was telling them about the Father.
King James Version
They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.
World English Bible
They didn’t understand that he spoke to them about the Father.
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John 8:25–29 · Berean Standard Bible
25 “Who are You?” they asked. “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning,” Jesus replied.
26 “I have much to say about you and much to judge. But the One who sent Me is truthful, and what I have heard from Him, I tell the world.”
27 They did not understand that He was telling them about the Father.
28 So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own, but speak exactly what the Father has taught Me.
29 He who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
John 8:43Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message.
John 8:47Whoever belongs to God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”
Isaiah 6:9And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
Isaiah 42:18Listen, you deaf ones; look, you blind ones, that you may see!
Isaiah 42:19Who is blind but My servant, or deaf like the messenger I am sending? Who is blind like My covenant partner, or blind like the servant of the LORD?
Isaiah 42:20Though seeing many things, you do not keep watch. Though your ears are open, you do not hear.”
Isaiah 59:10Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.
Romans 11:7What then? What Israel was seeking, it failed to obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened,
Romans 11:8as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear, to this very day.”
Romans 11:9And David says: “May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution to them.
Romans 11:10May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.”
2 Corinthians 4:3And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
2 Corinthians 4:4The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.