1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
2 Now very early in the morning, he
came again into the temple, and all the
people came to him. He sat down and
taught them.
3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought
a woman taken in adultery. Having set her
in the middle,
4 they told him, “Teacher, we found this
woman in adultery, in the very act.
5 Now in our law, Moses commanded us
to stone such women.* What then do you
say about her?”
6 They said this testing him, that they
might have something to accuse him of.
But Jesus stooped down and wrote on
the ground with his finger.
7 But when they continued asking him,
he looked up and said to them, “He who is
without sin among you, let him throw the
first stone at her.” 8 Again he stooped down and wrote on
the ground with his finger.
9 They, when they heard it, being convicted
by their conscience, went out one by
one, beginning from the oldest, even to the
last. Jesus was left alone with the woman
where she was, in the middle.
10 Jesus, standing up, saw her and said,
“Woman, where are your accusers? Did no
one condemn you?”
11 She said, “No one, Lord.”
Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you.
Go your way. From now on, sin no more.Ӡ
12 Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them,
saying, “I am the light of the world.* He
who follows me will not walk in the darkness,
but will have the light of life.”
13 The Pharisees therefore said to him,
“You testify about yourself. Your testimony
is not valid.”
14 Jesus answered them, “Even if I testify
about myself, my testimony is true, for I
know where I came from, and where I am
going; but you don’t know where I came
from, or where I am going.
15 You judge according to the flesh. I
judge no one.
16 Even if I do judge, my judgment is true,
for I am not alone, but I am with the Father
who sent me.
17 It’s also written in your law that the
testimony of two people is valid.*
18 I am one who testifies about myself,
and the Father who sent me testifies about
me.”
19 They said therefore to him, “Where is
your Father?”
Jesus answered, “You know neither me
nor my Father. If you knew me, you would
know my Father also.”
20 Jesus spoke these words in the treasury,
as he taught in the temple. Yet no one
arrested him, because his hour had not yet
come.
21 Jesus said therefore again to them, “I
am going away, and you will seek me, and
you will die in your sins. Where I go, you
can’t come.”
22 The Jews therefore said, “Will he kill
himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going,
you can’t come’?”
23 He said to them, “You are from beneath.
I am from above. You are of this
world. I am not of this world.
24 I said therefore to you that you will die
in your sins; for unless you believe that I
am‡ he, you will die in your sins.”
25 They said therefore to him, “Who are
you?”
Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been
saying to you from the beginning.
26 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.”
27 They didn’t understand that he spoke
to them about the Father.
28 Jesus therefore said to them, “When
you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you
will know that I am he, and I do nothing of
myself, but as my Father taught me, I say
these things.
29 He who sent me is with me. The Father
hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the
things that are pleasing to him.”
30 As he spoke these things, many believed
in him.
31 Jesus therefore said to those Jews who
had believed him, “If you remain in my
word, then you are truly my disciples.
32 You will know the truth, and the truth
will make you free.” *
33 They answered him, “We are Abraham’s
offspring, and have never been in
bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You
will be made free’?”
34 Jesus answered them, “Most certainly
I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the
bondservant of sin.
35 A bondservant doesn’t live in the
house forever. A son remains forever.
36 If therefore the Son makes you free,
you will be free indeed.
37 I know that you are Abraham’s offspring,
yet you seek to kill me, because my
word finds no place in you.
38 I say the things which I have seen
with my Father; and you also do the things
which you have seen with your father.”
39 They answered him, “Our father is
Abraham.”
Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s
children, you would do the works of
Abraham.
40 But now you seek to kill me, a man who
has told you the truth which I heard from
God. Abraham didn’t do this.
41 You do the works of your father.”
They said to him, “We were not born of
sexual immorality. We have one Father,
God.”
42 Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God
were your father, you would love me, for
I came out and have come from God. For I
haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.
43 Why don’t you understand my speech?
Because you can’t hear my word.
44 You are of your father the devil, and
you want to do the desires of your father.
He was a murderer from the beginning,
and doesn’t stand in the truth, because
there is no truth in him. When he speaks
a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar,
and the father of lies.
45 But because I tell the truth, you don’t
believe me.
46 Which of you convicts me of sin? If I
tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
47 He who is of God hears the words of
God. For this cause you don’t hear, because
you are not of God.”
48 Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t
we say well that you are a Samaritan, and
have a demon?”
49 Jesus answered, “I don’t have a demon,
but I honor my Father and you dishonor
me.
50 But I don’t seek my own glory. There is
one who seeks and judges.
51 Most certainly, I tell you, if a person
keeps my word, he will never see death.”
52 Then the Jews said to him, “Now we
know that you have a demon. Abraham
died, as did the prophets; and you say, ‘If
a man keeps my word, he will never taste
of death.’ 53 Are you greater than our father Abraham,
who died? The prophets died. Who
do you make yourself out to be?”
54 Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself,
my glory is nothing. It is my Father who
glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our
God.
55 You have not known him, but I know
him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would
be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep
his word.
56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see
my day. He saw it and was glad.”
57 The Jews therefore said to him, “You
are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen
Abraham?”
58 Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I
tell you, before Abraham came into existence,
I AM.*”
59 Therefore they took up stones to throw
at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out
of the temple, having gone through the
middle of them, and so passed by.
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