John 8:45

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

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will practise. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not fast in the truth, because truth was not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh what is peculiarly his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

46Which of you can convict me of sin? Now if I speak the truth, why do ye not believe me?

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Cross References

John 3:19Now this is the condemnation, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

John 18:37Then said Pilate unto him. Art thou not a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. For this end I was born, and for this I came into the world, that I should be a witness for the truth. Every one who is of the truth heareth my voice.

2 Thessalonians 2:10and in every unrighteous delusion among those who perish: in consequence of which things they received not the love of the truth, that they might 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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