John 8:43 Cross References - Williams

⁴³ Why is it that you misunderstand what I say? It is because you cannot listen to what I teach.

⁴³ I have come in my Father's name, but you refuse to accept me. If anyone else should come in his own name, you would accept him.

⁶⁰ So many of His disciples, when they heard it, said, "This teaching is hard to take in. Who can listen to it?"

¹⁷ If anyone is willing to keep on doing God's will, he will know whether my teaching comes from God, or merely expresses my own ideas.

²⁷ They did not understand that He was speaking to them about the Father.

³⁹ So they could not believe, for Isaiah again has said: ⁴⁰ "He has blinded their eyes and benumbed their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes and understand with their hearts, and turn to me to cure them."

⁵¹ "You people, stubborn in will, heathenish in hearts and ears, you are always resisting the Holy Spirit, as your forefathers did, too.

¹¹ No one understands, no one is searching for God;

⁷ Because one's thinking the things suggested by the lower nature means enmity to God, for it does not subject itself to God's law, nor indeed can it. ⁸ The people who live on the plane of the lower nature cannot please God.