John 8:43

8:43 Why don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept ¹  my teaching. ² 

John 8:47

8:47 The one who belongs to ³  God listens and responds ⁴  to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond, ⁵  because you don’t belong to God.” ⁶ 

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¹ tn Grk “you cannot hear,” but this is not a reference to deafness, but rather hearing in the sense of listening to something and responding to it.

² tn Grk “my word.”

³ tn Grk “who is of.”

⁴ tn Grk “to God hears” (in the sense of listening to something and responding to it).

⁵ tn Grk “you do not hear” (in the sense of listening to something and responding to it).

⁶ tn Grk “you are not of God.”