John 8:45 - Exposition

Then, turning to these children of the wicked one, Christ delivered a tremendous denunciation: But because I say the truth— because I am the Organ, Utterance, and Incarnation of the truth— ye believe me not . If he spake lies to them, they would greedily receive them. The very cause of their lack of credence is the utterance of truth. The "I" is emphatic, and set over against the "you" of the second clause. There is a tragic force about this charge almost unparalleled, implying the most wilful estrangement from God, a rejection of known truth because it was truth, a love of darkness because it was darkness, a moral obtuseness which answers to the terrible language, "Lest they should see with their eyes," etc.