45And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; …
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. …
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 38-47)Here Christ and the Jews are still at issue; he sets himself to convince and convert them, while they still set themselves to contradict and oppose him. I. He here traces the difference between his sentiments and theirs to a different rise and origin (John 8:38): I speak that which I have seen with my Father , and you do what you have seen with your father . Here are two fathers spoken of, accordi…
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