John 8:26

I could judge you and say that you are guilty of many things. But instead, I will say only what the one who sent me tells me to say. What he says is true, and I tell the people in the world [MTY] what I have heard from him.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.

In Context

25So they said to him, “You! Who do you think you are?” Jesus said to them, “Ever since I began teaching, I have been telling you who I am!

27They did not understand that he was talking about his Father in heaven.

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Cross References

John 5:42But you want people to praise you. I know that within yourselves you do not love God.

John 7:28They said that because they thought Jesus was born in Nazareth. So while Jesus was teaching people in the Temple courtyard, he shouted, “Yes, you say that you know me, and you think you know [IRO] where I am from. But I have come here not ◄because I appointed myself/with my own authority►. Instead, God is the one who truly sent me. You do not know him.

John 8:40I have been telling you the truth that I heard from God, but you are trying to kill me. Abraham did not do things like that.

John 12:47As for those who hear my message but do not obey its commands, I am not the one who judges them. The main reason that I came ◄ into the world/from heaven► was not to judge the people of [MTY] the world. Instead, I came to save them from being punished for their sins.

John 16:12I have many more things that I would like to tell you, but you are not able to accept them now.

2 Corinthians 1:18Just as surely as God always does what he says he will do, it is true that I have never said, “Yes, I will do this” when I really meant “No.”

Matthew Henry on John 8:22-31

Christ's Discourse with the Pharisees. 21 Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come. 22 Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come. 23 And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world. 24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins. 25 Then said they unto… Read the whole commentary →

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