43 (A)Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.

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43 Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say.

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39 Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again:

40 “He(A) has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts,
(B)Lest they should see with their eyes,
Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn,
So that I should heal them.”

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39 For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere:

40 “He has blinded their eyes
    and hardened their hearts,
so they can neither see with their eyes,
    nor understand with their hearts,
    nor turn—and I would heal them.”[a](A)

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  1. John 12:40 Isaiah 6:10

43 I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive.

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43 I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

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Because (A)the [a]carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, (B)nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

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  1. Romans 8:7 fleshly

The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God;(A) it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh(B) cannot please God.

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17 (A)If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God or whether I speak on My own authority.

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17 Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out(A) whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own.

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Israel Resists the Holy Spirit

51 You (A)stiff-necked[a] and (B)uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

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  1. Acts 7:51 stubborn

51 “You stiff-necked people!(A) Your hearts(B) and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit!

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27 They did not understand that He spoke to them of the Father.

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27 They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.

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Many Disciples Turn Away

60 (A)Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a [a]hard saying; who can understand it?”

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  1. John 6:60 difficult

Many Disciples Desert Jesus

60 On hearing it, many of his disciples(A) said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?”(B)

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10 To whom shall I speak and give warning,
That they may hear?
Indeed their (A)ear is uncircumcised,
And they cannot give heed.
Behold, (B)the word of the Lord is a reproach to them;
They have no delight in it.

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10 To whom can I speak and give warning?
    Who will listen(A) to me?
Their ears are closed[a](B)
    so they cannot hear.(C)
The word(D) of the Lord is offensive to them;
    they find no pleasure in it.

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  1. Jeremiah 6:10 Hebrew uncircumcised

(A)Evil men do not understand justice,
But (B)those who seek the Lord understand all.

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Evildoers do not understand what is right,
    but those who seek the Lord understand it fully.

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18 (A)They do not know nor understand;
For (B)He has [a]shut their eyes, so that they cannot see,
And their hearts, so that they cannot (C)understand.

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  1. Isaiah 44:18 Lit. smeared over

18 They know nothing, they understand(A) nothing;
    their eyes(B) are plastered over so they cannot see,
    and their minds closed so they cannot understand.

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And He said, “Go, and (A)tell this people:

‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand;
Keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’

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He said, “Go(A) and tell this people:

“‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding;
    be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’(B)

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12 But they do not know (A)the thoughts of the Lord,
Nor do they understand His counsel;
For He will gather them (B)like sheaves to the threshing floor.

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12 But they do not know
    the thoughts of the Lord;
they do not understand his plan,(A)
    that he has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

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