John 8:13

Good News Translation

The Pharisees said to him, "Now you are testifying on your own behalf; what you say proves nothing."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So the Pharisees said to him, “You are testifying about yourself. Your testimony is not valid.”

King James Version (1611)
The Pharisees therefore said vnto him, Thou bearest record of thy selfe, thy record is not true.

King James Version
The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest record of thyself; thy record is not true.

English Standard Version
So the Pharisees said to him, "You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true."

New American Standard Bible
So the Pharisees said to Him, "You are testifying about Yourself; Your testimony is not true."

New Century Version
The Pharisees said to Jesus, "When you talk about yourself, you are the only one to say these things are true. We cannot accept what you say."

Amplified Bible
Then the Pharisees told Him, "You are testifying on Your own behalf; Your testimony is not valid."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So the Pharisees said to Him, "You are testifying about Yourself; Your testimony is not true."

Legacy Standard Bible
So the Pharisees said to Him, "You are bearing witness about Yourself; Your witness is not true."

Berean Standard Bible
So the Pharisees said to Him, "You are testifying about Yourself; Your testimony is not valid."

Contemporary English Version
The Pharisees objected, "You are the only one speaking for yourself, and what you say isn't true!"

Complete Jewish Bible
So the P'rushim said to him, "Now you're testifying on your own behalf; your testimony is not valid."

Darby Translation
The Pharisees therefore said to him, Thou bearest witness concerning thyself; thy witness is not true.

Easy-to-Read Version
But the Pharisees said to Jesus, "When you talk about yourself, you are the only one to say that these things are true. So we cannot accept what you say."

Geneva Bible (1587)
The Pharises therefore saide vnto him, Thou bearest recorde of thy selfe: thy recorde is not true.

George Lamsa Translation
The Pharisees said to him, You testify concerning yourself; your testimony is not true.

Lexham English Bible
So the Pharisees said to him, "You testify concerning yourself! Your testimony is not true."

Literal Translation
Then the Pharisees said to Him, You witnessed concerning Yourself; Your witness is not true.

American Standard Version
The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest witness of thyself; thy witness is not true.

Bible in Basic English
So the Pharisees said to him, The witness you give is about yourself: your witness is not true.

Hebrew Names Version
The Perushim therefore said to him, "You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid."

International Standard Version
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Etheridge Translation
The Pharishee say to him, Thou of [fn] thyself testifiest: thy testimony is not the truth.

Murdock Translation
The Pharisees said to him: Thou bearest witness of thyself, thy testimony is not certain.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The pharisees therfore said vnto him: Thou bearest recorde of thy selfe, thy recorde is not true.

English Revised Version
The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest witness of thyself; thy witness is not true.

World English Bible
The Pharisees therefore said to him, "You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
The Pharisees therefore said to him, Thou testifiest of thyself; thy testimony is not valid.

Weymouth's New Testament
"You are giving testimony about yourself," said the Pharisees; "your testimony is not true."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor the Fariseis seiden, Thou berist witnessyng of thi silf; thi witnessyng is not trewe.

Update Bible Version
The Pharisees therefore said to him, You bear witness of yourself; your witness is not true.

Webster's Bible Translation
The Pharisees therefore said to him, Thou testifiest concerning thyself; thy testimony is not true.

New English Translation
So the Pharisees objected, "You testify about yourself; your testimony is not true!"

New King James Version
The Pharisees therefore said to Him, "You bear witness of Yourself; Your witness is not true."

New Living Translation
The Pharisees replied, "You are making those claims about yourself! Such testimony is not valid."

New Life Bible
The proud religious law-keepers said to Him, "You are talking about Yourself. What You say about Yourself is not true."

New Revised Standard
Then the Pharisees said to him, "You are testifying on your own behalf; your testimony is not valid."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The Pharisees, therefore, said unto him - Thou, concerning thyself, bearest witness: thy witness, is not true.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Pharisees therefore said to him: Thou givest testimony of thyself. Thy testimony is not true.

Revised Standard Version
The Pharisees then said to him, "You are bearing witness to yourself; your testimony is not true."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
The pharises sayde vnto him: thou bearest recorde of thy sylfe thy recorde is not true.

Young's Literal Translation
The Pharisees, therefore, said to him, `Thou of thyself dost testify, thy testimony is not true;'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then sayde the Pharises vnto him: Thou bearest recorde of thy self, thy recorde is not true.

Mace New Testament (1729)
the Pharisees therefore said to him, you give a testimony of your self, your testimony is not valid.

THE MESSAGE
The Pharisees objected, "All we have is your word on this. We need more than this to go on."

Simplified Cowboy Version
Some Pharisees challenged him, "You can't claim that about yourself without a witness to back it up."

Contextual Overview

¹² Jesus spoke to the Pharisees again. "I am the light of the world," he said. "Whoever follows me will have the light of life and will never walk in darkness." ¹³ The Pharisees said to him, "Now you are testifying on your own behalf; what you say proves nothing." ¹⁴ "No," Jesus answered, "even though I do testify on my own behalf, what I say is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. You do not know where I came from or where I am going. ¹⁵ You make judgments in a purely human way; I pass judgment on no one. ¹⁶ But if I were to do so, my judgment would be true, because I am not alone in this; the Father who sent me is with me. ¹⁷ It is written in your Law that when two witnesses agree, what they say is true. ¹⁸ I testify on my own behalf, and the Father who sent me also testifies on my behalf." ¹⁹ "Where is your father?" they asked him. "You know neither me nor my Father," Jesus answered. "If you knew me, you would know my Father also." ²⁰ Jesus said all this as he taught in the Temple, in the room where the offering boxes were placed. And no one arrested him, because his hour had not come.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Thou: John 5:31-47

Reciprocal: John 12:17 - bare Hebrews 12:3 - contradiction 1 John 5:7 - bear 1 John 5:11 - this

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
When Noah was six hundred years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month all the outlets of the vast body of water beneath the earth burst open, all the floodgates of the sky were opened,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Pharisees therefore said unto him,.... On account of his declaring himself the light of the world: these were either the same who went out of the temple, filled with remorse of conscience, and were now returned, and bearing him a grudge, came to take some advantage against him, if they could; or they were others of the same complexion, sent by them, to make their observations on him:

thou bearest record of thyself. The Ethiopic version renders it, "dost thou thyself?" which does not seem so decent and comely; see

Proverbs 27:2; though it does not follow, that what a man says of himself is not truth, as these suggest:

thy record is not true; for John testified of himself, that he was not the Christ, nor Elias, nor that prophet; but the voice of one crying in the wilderness; and this testimony he bore of himself, at the importunity of the Jews themselves, John 1:19; and his testimony was true; so was that which Christ bore of himself; but their sense rather seems to be, that it was not firm and authentic, and would not pass in any court of judicature, since no man can be a witness in his own cause.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou bearest record of thyself - Thou art a witness for thyself, or in thy own case. See John 5:31. The law required two witnesses in a criminal case, and they alleged that as the only evidence which Jesus had was his own assertion, it could not be entitled to belief.

Is not true - Is not worthy of belief, or is not substantiated by sufficient evidence.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 8:13. Thou bearest record — As if they had said, Dost thou imagine that we shall believe thee, in a matter so important, on thy bare assertion? Had these people attended to the teaching and miracles of Christ, they would have seen that his pretensions to the Messiahship were supported by the most irrefragable testimony.