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

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

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.

⁷ 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. ⁸ So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

^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.

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.

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

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?”