John 8:13

Contemporary English Version

The Pharisees objected, "You are the only one speaking for yourself, and what you say isn't true!"

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
But the Pharisees said to Jesus, "When you talk about yourself, you are the only one to say that these things are true. So we cannot accept what you say."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
The pharises sayde vnto him: thou bearest recorde of thy sylfe thy recorde is not true.

Hebrew Names Version
The Perushim therefore said to him, "You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid."

International Standard Version
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New American Standard Bible
So the Pharisees said to Him, "You are testifying about Yourself; Your testimony is not true."

New Century Version
The Pharisees said to Jesus, "When you talk about yourself, you are the only one to say these things are true. We cannot accept what you say."

Update Bible Version
The Pharisees therefore said to him, You bear witness of yourself; your witness is not true.

Webster's Bible Translation
The Pharisees therefore said to him, Thou testifiest concerning thyself; thy testimony is not true.

English Standard Version
So the Pharisees said to him, "You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true."

World English Bible
The Pharisees therefore said to him, "You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
The Pharisees therefore said to him, Thou testifiest of thyself; thy testimony is not valid.

Weymouth's New Testament
"You are giving testimony about yourself," said the Pharisees; "your testimony is not true."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor the Fariseis seiden, Thou berist witnessyng of thi silf; thi witnessyng is not trewe.

English Revised Version
The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest witness of thyself; thy witness is not true.

Berean Standard Bible
So the Pharisees said to Him, "You are testifying about Yourself; Your testimony is not valid."

Amplified Bible
Then the Pharisees told Him, "You are testifying on Your own behalf; Your testimony is not valid."

American Standard Version
The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest witness of thyself; thy witness is not true.

Bible in Basic English
So the Pharisees said to him, The witness you give is about yourself: your witness is not true.

Complete Jewish Bible
So the P'rushim said to him, "Now you're testifying on your own behalf; your testimony is not valid."

Darby Translation
The Pharisees therefore said to him, Thou bearest witness concerning thyself; thy witness is not true.

Etheridge Translation
The Pharishee say to him, Thou of [fn] thyself testifiest: thy testimony is not the truth.

Murdock Translation
The Pharisees said to him: Thou bearest witness of thyself, thy testimony is not certain.

King James Version (1611)
The Pharisees therefore said vnto him, Thou bearest record of thy selfe, thy record is not true.

New Living Translation
The Pharisees replied, "You are making those claims about yourself! Such testimony is not valid."

New Life Bible
The proud religious law-keepers said to Him, "You are talking about Yourself. What You say about Yourself is not true."

New Revised Standard
Then the Pharisees said to him, "You are testifying on your own behalf; your testimony is not valid."

Geneva Bible (1587)
The Pharises therefore saide vnto him, Thou bearest recorde of thy selfe: thy recorde is not true.

George Lamsa Translation
The Pharisees said to him, You testify concerning yourself; your testimony is not true.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The Pharisees, therefore, said unto him - Thou, concerning thyself, bearest witness: thy witness, is not true.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Pharisees therefore said to him: Thou givest testimony of thyself. Thy testimony is not true.

Revised Standard Version
The Pharisees then said to him, "You are bearing witness to yourself; your testimony is not true."

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The pharisees therfore said vnto him: Thou bearest recorde of thy selfe, thy recorde is not true.

Good News Translation
The Pharisees said to him, "Now you are testifying on your own behalf; what you say proves nothing."

Christian Standard Bible®
So the Pharisees said to him, “You are testifying about yourself. Your testimony is not valid.”

King James Version
The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest record of thyself; thy record is not true.

Lexham English Bible
So the Pharisees said to him, "You testify concerning yourself! Your testimony is not true."

Literal Translation
Then the Pharisees said to Him, You witnessed concerning Yourself; Your witness is not true.

Young's Literal Translation
The Pharisees, therefore, said to him, `Thou of thyself dost testify, thy testimony is not true;'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then sayde the Pharises vnto him: Thou bearest recorde of thy self, thy recorde is not true.

Mace New Testament (1729)
the Pharisees therefore said to him, you give a testimony of your self, your testimony is not valid.

THE MESSAGE
The Pharisees objected, "All we have is your word on this. We need more than this to go on."

New English Translation
So the Pharisees objected, "You testify about yourself; your testimony is not true!"

New King James Version
The Pharisees therefore said to Him, "You bear witness of Yourself; Your witness is not true."

Simplified Cowboy Version
Some Pharisees challenged him, "You can't claim that about yourself without a witness to back it up."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So the Pharisees said to Him, "You are testifying about Yourself; Your testimony is not true."

Legacy Standard Bible
So the Pharisees said to Him, "You are bearing witness about Yourself; Your witness is not true."

Contextual Overview

¹² Once again Jesus spoke to the people. This time he said, "I am the light for the world! Follow me, and you won't be walking in the dark. You will have the light that gives life." ¹³ The Pharisees objected, "You are the only one speaking for yourself, and what you say isn't true!" ¹⁴ Jesus replied: Even if I do speak for myself, what I say is true! I know where I came from and where I am going. But you don't know where I am from or where I am going. ¹⁵ You judge in the same way that everyone else does, but I don't judge anyone. ¹⁶ If I did judge, I would judge fairly, because I would not be doing it alone. The Father who sent me is here with me. ¹⁷ Your Law requires two witnesses to prove that something is true. ¹⁸ I am one of my witnesses, and the Father who sent me is the other one. ¹⁹ "Where is your Father?" they asked. "You don't know me or my Father!" Jesus answered. "If you knew me, you would know my Father." ²⁰ Jesus said this while he was still teaching in the place where the temple treasures were stored. But no one arrested him, because his time had not yet come.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Thou: John 5:31-47

Reciprocal: John 12:17 - bare Hebrews 12:3 - contradiction 1 John 5:7 - bear 1 John 5:11 - this

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
Noah was six hundred years old when the water under the earth started gushing out everywhere. The sky opened like windows, and rain poured down for forty days and nights. All this began on the seventeenth day of the second month of the year.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Pharisees therefore said unto him,.... On account of his declaring himself the light of the world: these were either the same who went out of the temple, filled with remorse of conscience, and were now returned, and bearing him a grudge, came to take some advantage against him, if they could; or they were others of the same complexion, sent by them, to make their observations on him:

thou bearest record of thyself. The Ethiopic version renders it, "dost thou thyself?" which does not seem so decent and comely; see

Proverbs 27:2; though it does not follow, that what a man says of himself is not truth, as these suggest:

thy record is not true; for John testified of himself, that he was not the Christ, nor Elias, nor that prophet; but the voice of one crying in the wilderness; and this testimony he bore of himself, at the importunity of the Jews themselves, John 1:19; and his testimony was true; so was that which Christ bore of himself; but their sense rather seems to be, that it was not firm and authentic, and would not pass in any court of judicature, since no man can be a witness in his own cause.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou bearest record of thyself - Thou art a witness for thyself, or in thy own case. See John 5:31. The law required two witnesses in a criminal case, and they alleged that as the only evidence which Jesus had was his own assertion, it could not be entitled to belief.

Is not true - Is not worthy of belief, or is not substantiated by sufficient evidence.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 8:13. Thou bearest record — As if they had said, Dost thou imagine that we shall believe thee, in a matter so important, on thy bare assertion? Had these people attended to the teaching and miracles of Christ, they would have seen that his pretensions to the Messiahship were supported by the most irrefragable testimony.