Discovery BoxJohn 8:43 
Context8:43 Why don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept 1 my teaching. 2
John 8:45-47
Context8:45 But because I am telling you 3 the truth, you do not believe me. 8:46 Who among you can prove me guilty 4 of any sin? 5 If I am telling you 6 the truth, why don’t you believe me? 8:47 The one who belongs to 7 God listens and responds 8 to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond, 9 because you don’t belong to God.” 10
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 Or “because I tell you.”
4 tn Or “can convict me.”
5 tn Or “of having sinned”; Grk “of sin.”
6 tn Or “if I tell you.”
7 tn Grk “who is of.”
8 tn Grk “to God hears” (in the sense of listening to something and responding to it).
9 tn Grk “you do not hear” (in the sense of listening to something and responding to it).
10 tn Grk “you are not of God.”
