John 8:27
Good News Translation
They did not understand that Jesus was talking to them about the Father.

New Revised Standard Version
They did not understand that he was speaking to them about the Father.

Contemporary English Version
No one understood that Jesus was talking to them about the Father.

New American Bible
They did not realize that he was speaking to them of the Father.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they understood not that he called God his Father.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they understood not that he called God his Father.

John 8:43,47 Why do you not know my speech? Because you cannot hear my word. . . .

Isaiah 6:9 And he said: Go, and thou shalt say to this people: Hearing, hear, and understand not: and see the vision, and know it not.

Isaiah 42:18-20 Hear, ye deaf, and, ye blind, behold that you may see. . . .

Isaiah 59:10 We have groped for the wall, and like the blind we have groped as if we had no eyes: we have stumbled at noonday as in darkness, we are in dark places, as dead men.

Romans 11:7-10 What then? That which Israel sought, he hath not obtained: but the election hath obtained it. And the rest have been blinded. . . .

2 Corinthians 4:3,4 And if our gospel be also hid, it is hid to them that are lost, . . .

Context
The Woman Caught in Adultery
26Many things I have to speak and to judge of you. But he that sent me, is true: and the things I have heard of him, these same I speak in the world. 27And they understood not that he called God his Father. 28Jesus therefore said to them: When you shall have lifted up, the Son of man, then shall you know that I am he and that I do nothing of myself. But as the Father hath taught me, these things I speak.…
Cross References
John 8:26
Many things I have to speak and to judge of you. But he that sent me, is true: and the things I have heard of him, these same I speak in the world.

John 8:28
Jesus therefore said to them: When you shall have lifted up, the Son of man, then shall you know that I am he and that I do nothing of myself. But as the Father hath taught me, these things I speak.

John 8:26
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