John 10:25
New International Version
Jesus answered, “I did tell you, but you do not believe. The works I do in my Father’s name testify about me,

New Living Translation
Jesus replied, “I have already told you, and you don’t believe me. The proof is the work I do in my Father’s name.

English Standard Version
Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name bear witness about me,

Berean Standard Bible
“I already told you,” Jesus replied, “but you did not believe. The works I do in My Father’s name testify on My behalf.

Berean Literal Bible
Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in the name of My Father, these bear witness concerning Me.

King James Bible
Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.

New King James Version
Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father’s name, they bear witness of Me.

New American Standard Bible
Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father’s name, these testify of Me.

NASB 1995
Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father’s name, these testify of Me.

NASB 1977
Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father’s name, these bear witness of Me.

Legacy Standard Bible
Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father’s name, these bear witness of Me.

Amplified Bible
Jesus answered them, “I have told you so, yet you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father’s name testify concerning Me [they are My credentials and the evidence declaring who I am].

Christian Standard Bible
“I did tell you and you don’t believe,” Jesus answered them. “The works that I do in my Father’s name testify about me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
“I did tell you and you don’t believe,” Jesus answered them. “The works that I do in My Father’s name testify about Me.

American Standard Version
Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believe not: the works that I do in my Father's name, these bear witness of me.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Yeshua answered and said to them, “I have told you, and you do not believe, and the works that I do in the Name of my Father, they testify of Me.”

Contemporary English Version
Jesus answered: I have told you, and you refused to believe me. The things I do by my Father's authority show who I am.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Jesus answered them: I speak to you, and you believe not: the works that I do in the name of my Father, they give testimony of me.

English Revised Version
Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believe not: the works that I do in my Father's name, these bear witness of me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Jesus answered them, "I've told you, but you don't believe me. The things that I do in my Father's name testify on my behalf.

Good News Translation
Jesus answered, "I have already told you, but you would not believe me. The deeds I do by my Father's authority speak on my behalf;

International Standard Version
Jesus answered them, "I have told you, but you don't believe it. The actions that I do in my Father's name testify on my behalf,

Literal Standard Version
Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in the Name of My Father, these testify concerning Me;

Majority Standard Bible
“I already told you,” Jesus replied, “but you did not believe. The works I do in My Father’s name testify on My behalf.

New American Bible
Jesus answered them, “I told you and you do not believe. The works I do in my Father’s name testify to me.

NET Bible
Jesus replied, "I told you and you do not believe. The deeds I do in my Father's name testify about me.

New Revised Standard Version
Jesus answered, “I have told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name testify to me;

New Heart English Bible
Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these testify about me.

Webster's Bible Translation
Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I did in my Father's name, they testify concerning me.

Weymouth New Testament
"I have told you," answered Jesus, "and you do not believe. The deeds that I do in my Father's name--they give testimony about me.

World English Bible
Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me.

Young's Literal Translation
Jesus answered them, 'I told you, and ye do not believe; the works that I do in the name of my Father, these testify concerning me;

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Context
The Unbelief of the Jews
24So the Jews gathered around Him and demanded, “How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.” 25“I already told you,” Jesus replied, “but you did not believe. The works I do in My Father’s name testify on My behalf. 26But because you are not My sheep, you refuse to believe.…

Cross References
John 5:36
But I have testimony more substantial than that of John. For the works that the Father has given Me to accomplish--the very works I am doing--testify about Me that the Father has sent Me.

John 8:56
Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see My day. He saw it and was glad."

John 8:58
"Truly, truly, I tell you," Jesus declared, "before Abraham was born, I am!"

John 10:37
If I am not doing the works of My Father, then do not believe Me.

John 10:38
But if I am doing them, even though you do not believe Me, believe the works themselves, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I am in the Father."


Treasury of Scripture

Jesus answered them, I told you, and you believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.

I told.

John 5:17-43
But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work…

John 8:12,24,58
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life…

the works.

John 10:32,38
Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? …

John 3:2
The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.

John 5:36
But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.

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John 10
1. Jesus is the door, and the good shepherd.
19. Diverse opinions of him.
23. He proves by his works that he is Jesus the Son of God;
31. escapes the Jews;
39. and goes again beyond Jordan, where many believe on him.














(25) I told you, and ye believed not.--Better, and ye believe not, as all the best MSS. Here, as in John 8:25, where a similar direct question was put to Him, the answer is indirect. It could not be otherwise. Their misconception of the Messianic work had made the very word Messiah an impossible one for Him to utter to them. To have said He was the Messiah would have been to sanction their thought of Him as a temporal prince; to have said that He was not would have been to contradict the essential truth. He refers them, then, to His earlier words and deeds in proof of what He was. To inquirers of simpler hearts, as the woman of Samaria and the man born blind, He had used the word Messiah. To them He had again and again told the same truth, though the actual word had never crossed His lips while speaking to them.

The works that I do in my Father's name.--Comp. Note on John 5:36. This appeal to His works, and the assertion that they were done in His Father's name, is itself an answer in word and in deed that He was the Messiah.

Verse 25. - Jesus answered them. The reply of Jesus is full of wisdom. If he had at once given an affirmative answer, they would have misunderstood him, because he was not the Christ of their expectations. If he had denied that he was the Messiah, he would have been untrue to his deepest consciousness of reality. The answer was: I spake with you - told you what I am - and ye believe not. To the woman in Samaria, to the Capernaites, to the blind man, to Peter and the other apostles, and in several emphatic forms, he had admitted his Messiahship. In John 8. he had claimed the highest honors and announced his [Divine commission, and appealed to his great Messianic works, but his endeavor to rectify their Messianic ideal had, through their obtuseness, failed of its purpose. So now once more he referred them to works done in his Father's name, which hitherto had failed to convince them: The works that I do in my Father's name (John 5:19, 36), they bear witness concerning me.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
“I already told
Εἶπον (Eipon)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 2036: Answer, bid, bring word, command. A primary verb; to speak or say.

you,”
ὑμῖν (hymin)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

Jesus
Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.

replied,
Ἀπεκρίθη (Apekrithē)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 611: From apo and krino; to conclude for oneself, i.e. to respond; by Hebraism to begin to speak.

“but
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

you did not believe.
πιστεύετε (pisteuete)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4100: From pistis; to have faith, i.e. Credit; by implication, to entrust.

The
τὰ (ta)
Article - Nominative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

works
ἔργα (erga)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Plural
Strong's 2041: From a primary ergo; toil; by implication, an act.

I
ἐγὼ (egō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

do
ποιῶ (poiō)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 4160: (a) I make, manufacture, construct, (b) I do, act, cause. Apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary; to make or do.

in
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

My
μου (mou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

Father’s
Πατρός (Patros)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 3962: Father, (Heavenly) Father, ancestor, elder, senior. Apparently a primary word; a 'father'.

name
ὀνόματι (onomati)
Noun - Dative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3686: Name, character, fame, reputation. From a presumed derivative of the base of ginosko; a 'name'.

testify
μαρτυρεῖ (martyrei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 3140: To witness, bear witness, give evidence, testify, give a good report. From martus; to be a witness, i.e. Testify.

on My behalf.
ἐμοῦ (emou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.


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