John 8:45

But because I speak the truth, you do not believe me.

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

In Context

44You belong to your father the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks lies, he speaks from his own character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

46Which one of you can convict me of sin? If I am telling the truth, why do you not believe me?

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Cross References

John 3:19This is the judgment: The light has come into the world, but people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.

John 18:37Pilate said to him, “So yoʋ are a king?” Jesus answered, “Yoʋ have said yoʋrself that I am a king. The reason I was born and the reason I came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

2 Thessalonians 2:10and with every kind of wicked deception among those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

Matthew Henry on John 8:39-48

Christ's Discourse with the Pharisees. 38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father. 39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. 40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham. 41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even… Read the whole commentary →

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