John 8:45
New International Version
Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me!

New Living Translation
So when I tell the truth, you just naturally don’t believe me!

English Standard Version
But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.

Berean Standard Bible
But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me!

Berean Literal Bible
Now because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me!

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

New King James Version
But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.

New American Standard Bible
But because I say the truth, you do not believe Me.

NASB 1995
“But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me.

NASB 1977
“But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me.

Legacy Standard Bible
But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me.

Amplified Bible
But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me [and continue in your unbelief].

Christian Standard Bible
Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.

American Standard Version
But because I say the truth, ye believe me not.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“But you are not believing in me, I who am speaking the truth.”

Contemporary English Version
Everything I have told you is true, and you still refuse to have faith in me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if I say the truth, you believe me not.

English Revised Version
But because I say the truth, ye believe me not.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
So you don't believe me because I tell the truth.

Good News Translation
But I tell the truth, and that is why you do not believe me.

International Standard Version
But it is because I speak the truth that you don't believe me.

Literal Standard Version
And because I say the truth, you do not believe Me.

Majority Standard Bible
But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me!

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

NET Bible
But because I am telling you the truth, you do not believe me.

New Revised Standard Version
But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.

New Heart English Bible
But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.

Webster's Bible Translation
And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.

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

World English Bible
But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me.

Young's Literal Translation
'And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me.

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Context
The Children of the Devil
44You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies. 45But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me! 46Which of you can prove Me guilty of sin? If I speak the truth, why do you not believe Me?…

Cross References
John 18:37
"Then You are a king!" Pilate said. "You say that I am a king," Jesus answered. "For this reason I was born and have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to My voice."

John 8:46
Which of you can prove Me guilty of sin? If I speak the truth, why do you not believe Me?


Treasury of Scripture

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

John 3:19,20
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil…

John 7:7
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

Galatians 4:16
Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

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John 8
1. Jesus delivers the woman taken in adultery.
12. He declares himself the light of the world, and justifies his doctrine;
31. promises freedom to those who believe;
33. answers the Jews who boasted of Abraham;
48. answers their reviling, by showing his authority and dignity;
59. and slips away from those who would stone him.














(45) And because I tell you the truth.--The pronoun is full of emphatic meaning. And I, as contrary to him, because 1 tell you the truth, as contrary to the lie which is his characteristic.

Ye believe me not--i.e., ye believe not what I say. It does not mean, Ye believe not on Me, but Ye accept not the truth which I speak. There is something startling in this sharp opposition of truth and unbelief. To speak the truth is commonly to command belief. The mind of man is so constituted that truth is the first object of its search. Here was perfect truth presented to men, and they refused to accept it, because it was the truth, and they were themselves children of him who was a liar.

Verse 45. - Then, turning to these children of the wicked one, Christ delivered a tremendous denunciation: But because I say the truth - because I am the Organ, Utterance, and Incarnation of the truth - ye believe me not. If he spake lies to them, they would greedily receive them. The very cause of their lack of credence is the utterance of truth. The "I" is emphatic, and set over against the "you" of the second clause. There is a tragic force about this charge almost unparalleled, implying the most wilful estrangement from God, a rejection of known truth because it was truth, a love of darkness because it was darkness, a moral obtuseness which answers to the terrible language, "Lest they should see with their eyes," etc.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
But
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

because
ὅτι (hoti)
Conjunction
Strong's 3754: Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because.

I
ἐγὼ (egō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

speak
λέγω (legō)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 3004: (a) I say, speak; I mean, mention, tell, (b) I call, name, especially in the pass., (c) I tell, command.

the
τὴν (tēn)
Article - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

truth,
ἀλήθειαν (alētheian)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 225: From alethes; truth.

you do not believe
πιστεύετέ (pisteuete)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4100: From pistis; to have faith, i.e. Credit; by implication, to entrust.

Me!
μοι (moi)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.


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