John 8:26

Truth and honesty

²⁴ That is why I told you that you would die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”

²⁵ “Who are You?” they asked. “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning,” Jesus replied.

“I have much to say about you and much to judge. But the One who sent Me is truthful, and what I have heard from Him, I tell the world.”

²⁷ They did not understand that He was telling them about the Father.

²⁸ So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own, but speak exactly what the Father has taught Me.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: “I have much to say about you and much to judge. But the One who sent Me is truthful, and what I have heard from Him, I tell the world.”
KJV: I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
WEB: I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However, he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world.”
ASV: I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you: howbeit he that sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these speak I unto the world.
DARBY: I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but he that has sent me is true, and I, what I have heard from him, these things I say to the world.
BLB: I have many things to say and to judge concerning you⁺. But the One having sent Me is true; and I, what I heard from Him, these things I say to the world.”

ÅB: Jeg har meget å si og å dømme om dere; men han som har sendt meg, er sanndru, og det jeg har hørt av ham, det taler jeg til verden.
OTB: “Jeg har mye å si i dom over dere. Men Han som sendte Meg er troverdig, og det Jeg har hørt fra Ham, forteller Jeg verden.”
B1930: Jeg har meget å si og å dømme om eder; men han som har sendt mig, er sanndru, og det jeg har hørt av ham, det taler jeg til verden.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

John 15:15
No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.
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John 12:47–50
As for anyone who hears My words and does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
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John 8:40
But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham never did such a thing.
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John 7:28
Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You know Me, and you know where I am from. I have not come of My own accord, but He who sent Me is true. You do not know Him,
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John 17:8
For I have given them the words You gave Me, and they have received them. They knew with certainty that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me.
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Hebrews 5:11–12
We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing.
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2 Corinthians 1:18
But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”
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John 3:32–33
He testifies to what He has seen and heard, yet no one accepts His testimony.
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