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 8:45-47

8:45 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.”