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Why don`t you understand my speech? Because you can`t hear my word.
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A Matter of the Heart
Commentators agree that the inability to understand Jesus was not about intelligence but about attitude. The phrase 'cannot hear' means they couldn't tolerate or bear His message. As Albert Barnes notes, their pride, hatred, and wickedness created a spiritual deafness, preventing them from accepting what He said. This shows that a receptive heart is essential to understanding God's Word.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Why do you not [understand]? My meaning is clear, if you were disposed to understand me.
Even because you cannot hear my word
My speech (την λαλιαν την εμην) and
my word (τον λογον τον εμον). Perhaps λαλια, old word from λαλος (talk…
19th Century
Anglican
Why do you not understand my speech, ... my word.—The distinction between “speech” (the form) and “word” (the matter whic…
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Baptist
Why do you not understand my speech? Even because you cannot hear my word. You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you w…
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…
16th Century
Protestant
Why do you not understand my language? In this passage, He reproaches the Jews for their obstinacy, which was so great that they could…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Why do you not understand my speech ? &c.] Language, idiom, dialect, and form of speaking, in a figurative way; for …
Satan prompts people to excesses by which they murder themselves and others, while what he puts into their minds tends to ruin their souls. He is t…
13th Century
Catholic
After showing that the Jews had a certain spiritual origin, our Lord here rejects certain origins which they had presumptuously attribute…
