45 Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me!
45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
45 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.
45 I arrive on the scene, tell you the plain truth, and you refuse to have a thing to do with me.
45 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.
45 So when I tell the truth, you just naturally don't believe me!
Matthew Henry's Commentary on John 8:45
Commentary on John 8:41-47
(Read John 8:41-47)
Satan prompts men to excesses by which they murder themselves and others, while what he puts into the mind tends to ruin men's souls. He is the great promoter of falsehood of every kind. He is a liar, all his temptations are carried on by his calling evil good, and good evil, and promising freedom in sin. He is the author of all lies; whom liars resemble and obey, with whom all liars shall have their portion for ever. The special lusts of the devil are spiritual wickedness, the lusts of the mind, and corrupt reasonings, pride and envy, wrath and malice, enmity to good, and enticing others to evil. By the truth, here understand the revealed will of God as to the salvation of men by Jesus Christ, the truth Christ was now preaching, and which the Jews opposed.