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My speech (την λαλιαν την εμην) and
my word (τον λογον τον εμον). Perhaps λαλια, old word from λαλος (talk…
Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes
Why do you not [understand]? My meaning is clear, if you were disposed to understand me.
Even because you cannot hear my word
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
Why do you not understand my speech, ... my word.—The distinction between “speech” (the form) and “word” (the matter whic…
Charles Spurgeon
CharlesSpurgeon
I know that you are Abraham's seed; yet you seek to kill me, because my word does not have free course in you. I speak the things which I have …
Church Fathers
ChurchFathers
St. Augustine of Hippo: The Jews had begun to understand that our Lord was not speaking of sonship according to the flesh, but o…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
Expositor'sBible Commentary
The people might have been confused as to why they did not love Jesus if he was indeed sent from the Father. Jesus spoke to that point with a rheto…
John Calvin
JohnCalvin
Why do you not understand my language? In this passage, He reproaches the Jews for their obstinacy, which was so great that they could…
John Gill
JohnGill
Why do you not understand my speech ?
&c.] Language, idiom, dialect, and form of speaking, in a figurative way; for …
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
Satan prompts people to exce es by which they murder themselves and others, while what he puts into their minds tends to ruin their souls. He is th…
Thomas Aquinas
ThomasAquinas
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After showing that the Jews had a certain spiritual origin, our Lord here rejects certain origins which they had presumptuously attribute…
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A.T. Robertson
A.T.Robertson