John 8:45

But me, because I speak the truth, ye believe me not.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

44Ye are of your father, the calumniator; and the lust of your father ye are disposed to do. He was from the beginning a manslayer, and abode not in the truth; for the truth is not in him, and when he speaketh a lie he speaketh from himself, for he is a liar, and the father of it.

46Which of you convicteth me of sin? And if I speak the truth, why do ye not believe me?

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Cross References

John 3:19And this is the ground of condemnation, that light hath come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light, for their deeds have been evil.

John 18:37Pilate said to him: Then thou art a king? Jesus said to him: Thou hast said, that I am a king. For this was I born; and for this came I into the world, that I might bear testimony to the truth. Every one that is of the truth, heareth my voice.

2 Thessalonians 2:10and with all the deceptiveness of iniquity, in them that perish; because they did not receive the love of the truth, by which they might have life.

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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