Matthew Poole and continuators on John 5:38

38 And you have not his word abiding in you , for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not .

Though they had heard the word of the Lord, their Forefathers, by the Prophets, and in that Generation by Iohn the Baptist (the Messenger sent before Christs face) and now by Christ himself, whom the Father had sent; yet the word of the Lord had no place in their Hearts, Ch. 8.37. it was unto them as a Tale told; they received the sound of it, but it was not graven in their Hearts.

And this appeared, because as of themselves they had no intimacy of Communion with God to know his mind: So when the Son was sent out of the Bosom of the Father to reveal God unto them, yet they would not receive him, so as to give any steady, fixed assent to what he revealed, and to yield him any just and true Obedience.