Yoḥanan (John) 8
8
1And יהושע went to the Mount of Olives.
2And at dawn He came again into the Set-apart Place, and all the people were coming to Him. And having sat down, He was teaching them.
3And the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And having set her in the midst,
4they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.
5And in the Torah Mosheh commanded us that such should be stoned. What then do You say?
6And this they said, trying Him, so that they might accuse Him. But יהושע, bending down, wrote on the ground with the finger, as though He did not hear.
7But as they kept on questioning Him, He straightened up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.”
8And bending down again, He wrote on the ground.
9And when they heard it, being reproved by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the older ones until the last. And יהושע was left alone, and the woman standing in the middle.
10And יהושע, straightening up and seeing no one but the woman, said to her, “Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Did no one condemn you?”
11And she said, “No one, Master.” And יהושע said to her, “Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more.”#See also John 5:14; Rom. 6:16-20; 1Cor. 15:34; 1Pe. 2:24; 1Pe. 4:1, 2; 1John 3:4-10; 1John 5:18
12Therefore יהושע spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall by no means walk in darkness, but possess the light of life.”#See also John 11:9, 10 Chapter 7:53-8:11 does not appear in the Aramaic Peshitta or Aramaic Old Syriac texts.
13The Pharisees, therefore, said to Him, “You bear witness about Yourself, Your witness is not true.”
14יהושע answered and said to them, “Even if I witness concerning Myself, My witness is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know from where I come, or where I go.
15“You judge according to the flesh, I judge no one.
16“But even if I do judge, My judgment is true, because I am not alone in it, but I and the Father who sent Me.
17“And in your Torah also, it has been written that the witness of two men is true.
18“I am One who witnesses concerning Myself, and the Father who sent Me witnesses concerning Me.”
19Therefore they said to Him, “Where is Your Father?” יהושע answered, “You know neither Me nor My Father. If you knew Me, you would have known My Father also.”
20These words יהושע spoke in the treasury, teaching in the Set-apart Place. And no one laid hands on Him, because His hour had not yet come.
21Therefore יהושע said to them again, “I am going away, and you shall seek Me, and you shall die in your sin. Where I go you are unable to come.”
22Then the Yehuḏim said, “Shall He kill Himself, because He says, ‘Where I go you are unable to come’?”
23And He said to them, “You are from below, I am from above. You are of this world, I am not of this world.
24Therefore I said to you that you shall die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am He, you shall die in your sins.
25Then they said to Him, “Who are You?” And יהושע said to them, “Altogether that which I even say to you!
26I have much to say and to judge concerning you. But He who sent Me is true, and what I heard from Him, these Words I speak to the world.”
27They did not know that He spoke to them of the Father.
28So יהושע said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Aḏam, then you shall know that I am He, and that I do none at all of Myself, but as My Father taught Me, these words I speak.
29And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do what pleases Him.
30As He was speaking these words, many believed in Him.
31So יהושע said to those Yehuḏim who believed Him, “If you stay in My Word, you are truly My taught ones,
32and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
33They answered Him, “We are the seed of Aḇraham, and have been servants to no one at any time. How do you say, ‘You shall become free’?”
34יהושע answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone doing sin is a servant of sin.
35“And the servant does not stay in the house forever – a son stays forever.
36“If, then, the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.
37“I know that you are the seed of Aḇraham, but you seek to kill Me, because My Word has no place in you.
38“I speak what I have seen with My Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”
39They answered and said to Him, “Aḇraham is our father.”#See footnote at Mat. 3:9; and also Rom. 9:8 יהושע said to them, “If you were Aḇraham’s children, you would do the works of Aḇraham.
40“But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has spoken to you the truth which I heard from Elohim. Aḇraham did not do this.
41“You do the works of your father.” Then they said to Him, “We were not born of whoring, we have one Father: Elohim.”
42יהושע said to them, “If Elohim were your Father, you would love Me, for I came forth from Elohim, and am here. For I have not come of Myself, but He sent Me.
43“Why do you not know what I say? Because you are unable to hear My Word.
44“You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you wish to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.
45“And because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me.
46Who of you proves Me wrong concerning sin? And if I speak the truth, why do you not believe Me?”
47He who is of Elohim hears the Words of Elohim, therefore you do not hear because you are not of Elohim.
48The Yehuḏim answered and said to Him, “Do we not say well that You are a Shomeroni and have a demon?”
49יהושע answered, “I do not have a demon, but I value My Father, and you do not value Me.
50“And I do not seek My own esteem, there is One who is seeking and is judging.
51“Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone guards My Word he shall never see death at all.”
52The Yehuḏim said to Him, “Now we know that You have a demon! Aḇraham died, and the prophets. And You say, ‘If anyone guards My Word he shall never taste death at all.’
53Are You greater than our father Aḇraham, who died? And the prophets died. Whom do You make Yourself?
54יהושע answered, “If I esteem Myself, My esteem is none at all. It is My Father who esteems Me, of whom you say that He is your Elohim.
55And you have not known Him, but I know Him. And if I say, ‘I do not know Him,’ I shall be like you, a liar. But I do know Him and I guard His Word.#See also John 15:10
56Your father Aḇraham was glad that he should see My day, and he saw it and did rejoice.
57The Yehuḏim, therefore, said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Aḇraham?”
58יהושע said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Aḇraham came to be, I am.”#See also John 1:1; John 6:62; John 17:5; Heb. 11:26
59Therefore they picked up stones to throw at Him, but יהושע was hidden and went out of the Set-apart Place, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
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John 8
8
1But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.#Mt 21:1
An Adulteress Forgiven
2At dawn he went to the temple#Ac 21:26 again, and all the people were coming to him.#Mk 1:45 He sat down#Mk 9:35 and began to teach them.
3Then the scribes and the Pharisees#Mk 7:3 brought a woman caught in adultery,#Nm 5:11 making her stand in the center. 4“Teacher,” they said to him, “this woman was caught in the act of committing adultery.#Mt 5:27–28 5In the law Moses#Ps 77:20; Mt 8:4; Heb 3:2 commanded us to stone such women.#Lv 20:10; Dt 22:22–24; Ezk 16:38–41 So what do you say?” 6They asked this to trap him,#Lk 11:54 in order that they might have evidence to accuse him.
Jesus stooped down and started writing on the ground with his finger. 7When they persisted in questioning him, he stood up and said to them, “The one without sin#Rm 3:23; 6:23 among you#Rm 2:1,22 should be the first to throw a stone at her.”#Dt 17:7 8Then he stooped down again and continued writing on the ground. 9When they heard this, they left one by one, starting with the older men. Only he was left, with the woman in the center. 10When Jesus stood up, he said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
11“No one, Lord,”#8:11 Or Sir; Jn 4:15,49; 5:7; 6:34; 9:36 she answered.
“Neither do I condemn you,” #
Jn 3:17
said Jesus. “Go, and from now on do not sin anymore.”]
The Light of the World
12Jesus spoke to them again: “I am#Ex 3:14; Jn 8:24,58 the light#Ps 36:9; Jn 12:46; 1Jn 2:8 of the world. Anyone who follows me will never walk in the darkness but will have the light of life.”#Ex 13:21–22; 14:19–25; Is 42:6; 49:6; 60:19–22; Zch 14:5–8; Jn 9:5; 12:46
13So the Pharisees said to him, “You are testifying about yourself. Your testimony is not valid.”
14 “Even if I testify about myself,” Jesus replied, “my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I’m going. But you don’t know where I come from or where I’m going.#Jn 3:8; 7:28; 9:29; 12:35; 13:3,36; 14:5; 16:5,28; 1Jn 2:11 15You judge#Lk 6:37; Rv 19:11 by human standards.#8:15 Lit You judge according to the flesh#Php 3:3 I judge no one.#Jn 3:17; 12:47 16And if I do judge, my judgment is true, because it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.#Mt 12:41; Jn 16:32; 2Th 1:5 17Even in your law it is written that the testimony of two witnesses is true.#Nm 35:30; Jn 8:14 18I am the one who testifies#1Jn 5:7,9 about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”
19Then they asked him, “Where is your Father?”
“You know neither me nor my Father,” #
Jn 7:28; 1Jn 2:23 Jesus answered. “If you knew me, you would also know my Father.”#Lk 10:22; Jn 17:3; 1Jn 4:8 20He spoke these words by the treasury,#Mk 12:41,43; Lk 21:1 while teaching in the temple. But no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.
Jesus Predicts His Departure
21Then he said to them again, “I’m going away; #Jn 14:2; 16:5 you will look for me, and you will die in your sin.#Dt 24:16; Ezk 3:18; 33:8; Jn 15:22; Rm 3:23; 6:23 Where I’m going, you cannot come.”#Jn 7:34,36; 8:22; 13:33
22So the Jews said again, “He won’t kill himself, will he, since he says, ‘Where I’m going, you cannot come’#Jn 8:21?”
23 “You are from below,” he told them, “I am from above.#Jn 3:13,31; 18:36; Col 3:1–2 You are of this world; #1Jn 4:5 I am not of this world.#Jn 15:19; 17:14–16; 18:36 24Therefore I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”
25“Who are you?” they questioned.
“Exactly what I’ve been telling you from the very beginning,” Jesus told them. 26“I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the one who sent me#Jn 5:19 is true, and what I have heard from him — these things I tell the world.”#Jn 3:32; 15:15
27They did not know he was speaking to them about the Father. 28So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man,#Mk 2:10 then you will know that I am#Jn 8:24 he, and that I do nothing on my own.#Mk 6:5; Jn 9:33; 15:5 But just as the Father taught me, I say these things. 29The one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone,#Jn 16:32; Ac 10:38 because I always do what pleases him.”
Truth and Freedom
30As he was saying these things, many believed in him.
31Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you continue in my word,#8:31 Or my teaching, or my message, also in v. 37#Jn 2:22; 18:32 you really are my disciples. 32You will know the truth,#Ps 119:142; Jn 14:6; 2Th 2:10 and the truth will set you free.”
33“We are descendants#8:33 Or offspring; lit seed, also in v. 37; Jn 7:42 of Abraham,”#Gn 16:15; Jn 8:37; Heb 2:16 they answered him, “and we have never been enslaved to anyone. How can you say, ‘You will become free’?”
34Jesus responded, “Truly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.#Rm 6:17–20; 2Pt 2:19 35A slave does not remain in the household forever,#1Jn 2:17 but a son does remain forever.#Gn 21:10; Lk 15:31; Gl 4:30 36So if the Son sets you free, you really will be free. 37I know you are descendants of Abraham,#Lk 19:9; Jn 8:31–47; Ac 13:26; Rm 4:11,16; Gl 3:7 but you are trying to kill me because my word has no place among you. 38I speak what I have seen#Jn 3:32; 5:19; 6:46 in the presence of the Father; #8:38 Other mss read of my Father#Mt 5:16; 11:27; Lk 11:13; Jn 8:42 so then, you do what you have heard from your father.”
39“Our father is Abraham,” they replied.
“If you were Abraham’s children,” Jesus told them, “you would do what Abraham did.#Gl 3:7,9 40But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth#Ps 119:142; Jn 14:6 that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. 41You’re doing what your father does.”#2Jn 9
“We weren’t born#1Jn 2:29 of sexual immorality,”#Hs 2:4; 1Th 4:3 they said. “We have one Father — God.”#Dt 32:6
42Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me,#Dt 6:5; Lk 10:27; 1Jn 5:1 because I came from God#Jn 13:3; 16:27; 1Jn 5:20 and I am here. For I didn’t come on my own, but he sent me. 43Why don’t you understand what I say? Because you cannot listen to#8:43 Or cannot hear my word.#Lk 6:47; Jn 18:32 44You are of your father the devil,#Mt 4:1; Jn 13:2,27; Eph 2:1–3 and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer#1Jn 3:15 from the beginning#Gn 3:1–4; 4:8–9; Ac 26:4; 2Co 11:3; 1Jn 3:8–15; Rv 12:9 and does not stand in the truth,#Jn 14:6; Rm 3:7 because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature,#8:44 Lit from his own things because he is a liar and the father of lies. 45Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me. 46Who among you can convict me of sin?#Jn 15:22; 1Jn 3:5 If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me? 47The one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you don’t listen, because you are not from God.”
Jesus and Abraham
48The Jews responded to him, “Aren’t we right in saying that you’re a Samaritan#Lk 9:52; Ac 1:8 and have a demon?” #Jn 7:20; 10:20; Rv 9:20; 18:2
49 “I do not have a demon,” Jesus answered. “On the contrary, I honor my Father and you dishonor me. 50I do not seek my own glory; #Jn 17:24; Php 3:19; 1Pt 5:4 there is one who seeks it and judges. 51Truly I tell you, if anyone keeps my word,#Jn 8:52,55; 14:23–24; 15:20; 17:6; 18:32; 1Jn 2:5; Rv 1:3; 3:8,10; 22:7,9 he will never see death.”
52Then the Jews said, “Now we know you have a demon. Abraham died and so did the prophets. You say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.’ 53Are you greater than our father Abraham who died? And the prophets died. Who do you claim to be?”
54 “If I glorify myself,” Jesus answered, “my glory is nothing. My Father — about whom you say, ‘He is our God’ — he is the one who glorifies me. 55You do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say I don’t know him,#Jn 7:28 I would be a liar like you. But I do know him,#Mt 11:27 and I keep his word. 56Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day; he saw it#Lk 10:24; Heb 11:13–19 and was glad.”
57The Jews replied, “You aren’t fifty years old yet, and you’ve seen Abraham?” #8:57 Other mss read and Abraham has seen you?
58Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, before Abraham was, I am.”#Ex 3:14; Ps 45:8; Jn 1:15; 8:24; 17:5; Col 1:17
59So they picked up stones#Jn 10:33 to throw at him.#Ex 17:4; Lv 24:16; 1Sm 30:6; 1Kg 21:10–13; Jn 10:31; 11:8 But Jesus was hidden#8:59 Or Jesus hid himself#Lk 4:30; Jn 12:36 and went out of the temple.#8:59 Other mss add and having gone through their midst, he passed by#Ac 21:26
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