Teks -- John 8:43 (NET)

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

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Robertson: Joh 8:43 - My speech

My speech ( tēn lalian tēn emēn )

and my word (ton logon ton emon ). Perhaps lalia , old word from lalos (talk), means here more manner of speech than just story (Joh 4:42), while logos refers rather to the subject matter. They will not listen (ou dunasthe akouein ) to the substance of Christ’ s teaching and hence they are impatient with the way that he talks. How often that is true.

Vincent: Joh 8:43 - Speech - word

Speech - word ( λαλιὰν - λόγον )

The former word refers to the form , the latter to the substance of discourse. So Mat 26:73, of Peter, " thy speech (λαλιά ) bewrayeth thee;" thy mode of speaking. If they had understood the substance, they would have understood the form.

Vincent: Joh 8:43 - Cannot

Cannot

See on Joh 7:7.

Wesley: Joh 8:43 - Ye cannot

Such is your stubbornness and pride, hear - Receive, obey my word. Not being desirous to do my will, ye cannot understand my doctrine, Joh 7:17.

JFB: Joh 8:42-43 - If God were your Father, ye would love me

"If ye had anything of His moral image, as children have their father's likeness, ye would love Me, for I am immediately of Him and directly from Him." But "My speech" (meaning His peculiar style of expressing Himself on these subjects) is unintelligible to you because ye cannot take in the truth which it conveys.

Clarke: Joh 8:43 - Why do ye not understand my speech?

Why do ye not understand my speech? - Την λαλιαν την εμην, This my mode of speaking - when illustrating spiritual by natural things: λαλια refers to the manner of speaking; λογος, to the matter or subject on which he spoke. For λαλιαν, the Codex Bezae had originally αληθειαν : why do ye not acknowledge this Truth of mine? A few other MSS. agree in this reading

Clarke: Joh 8:43 - Because ye cannot hear my word

Because ye cannot hear my word - That is, ye cannot bear my doctrine: it comes too close to you; it searches your hearts, detects your hypocrisy, and exposes your iniquitous intentions and designs; and as ye are determined not to leave your sins, so ye are purposed not to hear my doctrine.

Calvin: Joh 8:43 - Why do you not understand my language?

43.Why do you not understand my language? In this passage, he reproaches the Jews with their obstinacy, which was so great, that they could not even endure to hear him speak Hence he infers, that they are actuated and hurried away by diabolical rage. Some make a distinction here between language and speech, as if speech had a more extensive meaning; but I do not see it; ²³⁹ and besides, it would not be appropriate that the word which means less should be placed first. Many point this verse in such a manner as to make the question close with the word language; ²⁴⁰ as if the question consisted only of these words, Why do you not understand my language ? So that the reason is immediately assigned, Because you cannot hear my word. But I think that it ought rather to be read in immediate connection, as if he had said, “What is the reason why my speech appears to you barbarous and unknown, so that I gain nothing by speaking to you, and so that you do not even deign to open your ears to receive what I say?” In the former clause, therefore, he reproves their stupidity; in the latter, he reproves their obstinate and ungovernable hatred of his doctrine; and he afterwards assigns a reason for both, when he says, that they are sprung from the devil For by putting the question, he intended to take out of their hands what was the subject of their continual boasting, that they are led by reason and judgment to oppose him.

TSK: Joh 8:43 - do // ye cannot

do : Joh 8:27, Joh 5:43, Joh 7:17, Joh 12:39, Joh 12:40; Pro 28:5; Isa 44:18; Hos 14:9; Mic 4:12; Rom 3:11

ye cannot : Joh 6:60; Isa 6:9; Jer 6:10; Act 7:51; Rom 8:7, Rom 8:8

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Poole: Joh 8:43 - because ye cannot hear

It is manifest all along this discourse, that Christ spake riddles to the Jews, and that they understood not the import and sense of his discourse: Now (saith our Saviour) the reason is,

because ye cannot hear that is, believe, my word: they could and did hear it with their ears; they heard the sound of it, but they could not discern the spiritual sense and meaning of it: it was not given to them to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, Mat 13:11 . And the reason was, because they suffered themselves to be blinded by prejudice, and by their own lusts and corrupt affections, till God gave them up to a judicial blindness, that hearing they heard, and did not understand; and seeing they saw, and did not perceive.

Lightfoot: Joh 8:43 - Because ye cannot hear my word

Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.   

[Because ye cannot hear my word.] You may here distinguish between the manner of speaking; or phrases used in speech and the matter or thing spoken. Isa 11:4; "He shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth." But they could not bear the smart of his rod; they would not therefore understand the phraseology or way of speech he used.

Gill: Joh 8:43 - Why do ye not understand my speech // even because ye cannot hear my word

Why do ye not understand my speech?.... Language, idiom, dialect, and form of speaking, in a figurative way; for they did not know what he meant by liberty, and bondage, and by having another father than Abraham, or by his own procession and coming forth from God:

even because ye cannot hear my word; as they had no spiritual discerning and understanding of the doctrine of Christ, which showed them to be carnal, and natural men, and not regenerate ones, and the children of God; so they had an aversion to it, and could not bear to hear it.