because

Why doe yee not vnderstand my speech? euen because yee cannot heare my word.

Ye are of your father the deuill, and the lusts of your father ye will doe: hee was a murtherer from the beginning, and abode not in the trueth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his owne: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

1611 marginal note1.Ioh. 3.8.

And because I tell you the truth, ye beleeue me not.

He that is of God, heareth Gods words: ye therefore heare them not, because ye are not of God.

1611 marginal note1.Ioh. 4.6.

Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because hee keepeth not the Sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner, doe such miracles? and there was a diuision among them.

These words spake his parents, because they feared the Iewes: for the Iewes had agreed already, that if any man did confesse that he was Christ, he should be put out of the Synagogue.

The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, & careth not for the sheepe.

Therefore doth my father loue me, because I lay downe my life that I might take it againe.

1611 marginal noteEsay. 53.7,8.

But ye beleeue not, because ye are not of my sheepe, as I said vnto you.

The Iewes answered him, saying, For a good worke we stone thee not, but for blasphemy, and because that thou, being a man, makest thy selfe God.