Matthew Poole and continuators on John 8:43

43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word .

It is manifest all along this Discourse, that Christ spake Riddles to the Iews, and that they understood not the import and sense of his Discourse; now (saith our Saviour) the reason is, because you cannot Hear, that is, Believe my Word: they could, and did hear it with their Ears; they heard the sound of it, but they could not discern the Spiritual sense and meaning of it. It was not given to them to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God: Matt. 13.11. And the reason was, because they suffered themselves to be blinded by prejudice, and by their own Lusts, and corrupt Affections, till God gave them up to a judicial Blindness, that hearing they heard, and did not understand; and seeing they saw, and did not perceive.