John 12:41

³⁹ For this reason they were unable to believe. For again, Isaiah says:

⁴⁰ “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.”

Isaiah said these things because he saw Jesus’ glory and spoke about Him.

⁴² Nevertheless, many of the leaders believed in Him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue.

⁴³ For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Isaiah said these things because he saw Jesus’ glory and spoke about Him.
KJV: These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.
WEB: Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.
ASV: These things said Isaiah, because he saw his glory; and he spake of him.
DARBY: These things said Esaias because he saw his glory and spoke of him.
BLB: Isaiah said these things because he saw His glory and spoke about Him.

ÅB: Dette sa Jesaja fordi han så hans herlighet og talte om ham.
OTB: Jesaja sa dette fordi han hadde sett Jesu herlighet og talte om ham.
B1930: Dette sa Esaias fordi han så hans herlighet og talte om ham.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Isaiah 6:1–5
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe filled the temple.
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John 1:14
The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
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Isaiah 6:9–10
And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
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John 1:18
No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.
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John 5:39
You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,
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2 Corinthians 4:6
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
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John 14:9
Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
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Hebrews 1:3
The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
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