John 12:39

For this reason they could not believe, ¹  because again Isaiah said,

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

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For this reason they could not believe, for Isaiah said again,

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But the people couldn’t believe, for as Isaiah also said,

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First they wouldn't believe, then they couldn't--again, just as Isaiah said:

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For this reason they were unable to have belief, because Isaiah said again,

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And so they could not believe, because Isaiah also said,

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Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again:

biblegateway Joh 12:39

For this reason they could not believe, ¹  because again Isaiah said,

¹ sn The author explicitly states here that Jesus’ Jewish opponents could not believe, and quotes Isa 6:10 to show that God had in fact blinded their eyes and hardened their heart. This OT passage was used elsewhere in the NT to explain Jewish unbelief: Paul’s final words in Acts (28:26-27) are a quotation of this same passage, which he uses to explain why the Jewish people have not accepted the gospel he has preached. A similar passage (Isa 29:10) is quoted in a similar context in Rom 11:8.