John 8:26

Truth and honesty

²⁴ I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.

²⁵ Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.

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.

²⁷ They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.

²⁸ Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.

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
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
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John 12:47–50
And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
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John 8:40
But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
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John 7:28
Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.
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John 17:8
For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
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Hebrews 5:11–12
Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
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2 Corinthians 1:18
But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.
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John 3:32–33
And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.
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