John 8:45

Simplified Cowboy Version

When I tell y'all the truth, you can't handle it either, so you don't believe me.

Parallel Translations

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

King James Version (1611)
And because I tell you the truth, ye beleeue me not.

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

English Standard 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.

New Century Version
But because I speak the truth, you don't believe me.

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

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"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.

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

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

Complete Jewish Bible
But as for me, because I tell the truth you don't believe me.

Darby Translation
and because I speak the truth, ye do not believe me.

Easy-to-Read Version
"I am telling you the truth, and that's why you don't believe me.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And because I tell you the trueth, yee beleeue me not.

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

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

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

Literal Translation
And because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me.

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

Bible in Basic English
But because I say what is true, you have no belief in me.

Hebrew Names Version
But because I tell the truth, you don't believe me.

International Standard Version
But it is because I speak the truth that you do not believe me.

Etheridge Translation
But I (speak the truth, and) because the truth I speak, you believe me not.

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

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And because I tel you the trueth, therfore ye beleue me not.

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

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

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But because I speak the truth, ye believe me not.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But for Y seie treuthe, ye bileuen not to me.

Update Bible Version
But because I say the truth, you don't believe me.

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

New English Translation
But because I am telling you the truth, you do not believe me.

New King James Version
But 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!

New Life Bible
I tell you the truth and that is why you do not put your trust in Me.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, as for me, because, the truth, I speak, ye do not believe me.

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

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

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And because I tell you ye trueth therfore ye beleve me not.

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

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But because I saye the trueth, ye beleue me not.

Mace New Testament (1729)
but as to me, because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me.

Contextual Overview

³⁸I am acting like my Father and y'all are behaving like yours." ³⁹"Our father is Abraham," they yelled."No, he's not," Jesus replied. "If he were your father then you would do as he did. ⁴⁰Abraham wouldn't be standing here trying to plot my murder, but y'all are. ⁴¹You all are acting like your real father."They yelled back, "We are not bastard children! God is our real father." ⁴²Jesus said, "If that were true, then you would love me. I have been sent by God. I have never said that I came on my own. ⁴³Why do y'all not understand this? Am I speaking a foreign language that you've never heard? ⁴⁴No, the reason you don't understand me is because your real father is the devil. He wants to kill me and so do y'all. He was a murderer in the beginning, and his bastard children act just like him. He has always despised the truth because he couldn't handle it. He lies because it's who he is. He is the father of lies. ⁴⁵When I tell y'all the truth, you can't handle it either, so you don't believe me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

John 3:19, John 3:20, John 7:7, Galatians 4:16, 2 Thessalonians 2:10, 2 Timothy 4:3, 2 Timothy 4:4

Reciprocal: Job 21:14 - for we Psalms 119:30 - chosen Proverbs 8:7 - my mouth Isaiah 30:10 - speak Amos 5:10 - abhor John 5:40 - ye will not John 8:37 - because John 8:47 - General John 16:7 - I tell 2 Thessalonians 2:13 - belief Hebrews 3:10 - err 1 John 1:6 - we lie 1 John 4:6 - he that knoweth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And because I tell you the truth,.... And no lie, the whole truth of the Gospel, and particularly the truth of his divine sonship:

ye believe me not; to such an infatuation and judicial blindness were they give up, to disbelieve him, because he told the truth, and to believe a lie, that they might be damned; which showed them to be the children of the devil, and under his power and influence.