John 8:27

In 9 translations

BSB

They did not understand that He was telling them about the Father.

KJV

They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.

WEB

They didn’t understand that he spoke to them about the Father.

ASV

They perceived not that he spake to them of the Father.

LSV

They did not know that He spoke to them of the Father;

YLT

They knew not that of the Father he spake to them;

DBY

They knew not that he spoke to them of the Father.

DRC

And they understood not, that he called God his Father.

GNV

They vnderstoode not that hee spake to them of the Father.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT

οὐκ ἔγνωσαν ὅτι τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῖς ἔλεγεν.

RP2018

Οὐκ ἔγνωσαν ὅτι τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῖς ἔλεγεν.

TR-Boyd

Οὐκ ἔγνωσαν ὅτι τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῖς ἔλεγεν.

SCR1894

ουκ εγνωσαν οτι τον πατερα αυτοις ελεγεν

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Cross-references most cited first

• Isaiah 6:9And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
• 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.
• Isaiah 42:18–20Listen, you deaf ones; look, you blind ones, that you may see! Who 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? Though…
• John 8:43Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message.
• 2 Corinthians 4:3–4And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. The 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…
• Romans 11:7–10What then? What Israel was seeking, it failed to obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened, as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear, to this…
• 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.”

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