John 8
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1And Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2Early in the morning he returned to the temple. All the people gathered around him, and he sat down and taught them. 3The legal experts and Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery. Placing her in the center of the group, 4they said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of committing adultery. 5In the Law, Moses commanded us to stone women like this. What do you say?” 6They said this to test him, because they wanted a reason to bring an accusation against him. Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.
7They continued to question him, so he stood up and replied, “Whoever hasn’t sinned should throw the first stone.” 8Bending down again, he wrote on the ground. 9Those who heard him went away, one by one, beginning with the elders. Finally, only Jesus and the woman were left in the middle of the crowd.
10Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Is there no one to condemn you?”
11She said, “No one, sir.”#8.11 Or Lord
Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go, and from now on, don’t sin anymore.”#8.11 Critical editions of the Gk New Testament do not contain 7:53–8:11.
Jesus continues to teach in the temple
12Jesus spoke to the people again, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me won’t walk in darkness but will have the light of life.”
13Then the Pharisees said to him, “Because you are testifying about yourself, your testimony isn’t valid.”
14Jesus replied, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, since I know where I came from and where I’m going. You don’t know where I come from or where I’m going. 15You judge according to human standards, but I judge no one. 16Even if I do judge, my judgment is truthful, because I’m not alone. My judgments come from me and from the Father who sent me. 17In your Law it is written that the witness of two people is true. 18I am one witness concerning myself, and the Father who sent me is the other.”
19They asked him, “Where is your Father?”
Jesus answered, “You don’t know me and you don’t know my Father. If you knew me, you would also know my Father.” 20He spoke these words while he was teaching in the temple area known as the treasury. No one arrested him, because his time hadn’t yet come.
21Jesus continued, “I’m going away. You will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I’m going, you can’t come.”
22The Jewish leaders said, “He isn’t going to kill himself, is he? Is that why he said, ‘Where I’m going, you can’t come’?”
23He said to them, “You are from below; I’m from above. You are from this world; I’m not from this world. 24This is why I told you that you would die in your sins. If you don’t believe that I Am, you will die in your sins.”
25“Who are you?” they asked.
Jesus replied, “I’m exactly who I have claimed to be from the beginning. 26I have many things to say in judgment concerning you. The one who sent me is true, and what I have heard from him I tell the world.” 27They didn’t know he was speaking about his Father. 28So Jesus said to them, “When the Human One#8.28 Or Son of Man is lifted up,#8.28 Or exalted then you will know that I Am.#8.28 Or that I am he Then you will know that I do nothing on my own, but I say just what the Father has taught me. 29He who sent me is with me. He doesn’t leave me by myself, because I always do what makes him happy.” 30While Jesus was saying these things, many people came to believe in him.
Children of Abraham
31Jesus said to the Jews who believed in him, “You are truly my disciples if you remain faithful to my teaching. 32Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
33They responded, “We are Abraham’s children; we’ve never been anyone’s slaves. How can you say that we will be set free?”
34Jesus answered, “I assure you that everyone who sins is a slave to sin. 35A slave isn’t a permanent member of the household, but a son is. 36Therefore, if the Son makes you free, you really will be free. 37I know that you are Abraham’s children, yet you want to kill me because you don’t welcome my teaching. 38I’m telling you what I’ve seen when I am with the Father, but you are doing what you’ve heard from your father.”
39They replied, “Our father is Abraham.”
Jesus responded, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do Abraham’s works. 40Instead, you want to kill me, though I am the one who has spoken the truth I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this. 41You are doing your father’s works.”
They said, “Our ancestry isn’t in question! The only Father we have is God!”
42Jesus replied, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God. Here I am. I haven’t come on my own. God sent me. 43Why don’t you understand what I’m saying? It’s because you can’t really hear my words. 44Your father is the devil. You are his children, and you want to do what your father wants. He was a murderer from the beginning. He has never stood for the truth, because there’s no truth in him. Whenever that liar speaks, he speaks according to his own nature, because he’s a liar and the father of liars. 45Because I speak the truth, you don’t believe me. 46Who among you can show I’m guilty of sin? Since I speak the truth, why don’t you believe me? 47God’s children listen to God’s words. You don’t listen to me because you aren’t God’s children.”
48The Jewish opposition answered, “We were right to say that you are a Samaritan and have a demon, weren’t we?”
49“I don’t have a demon,” Jesus replied. “But I honor my Father and you dishonor me. 50I’m not trying to bring glory to myself. There’s one who is seeking to glorify me, and he’s the judge. 51I assure you that whoever keeps my word will never die.”
Abraham and Jesus
52The Jewish opposition said to Jesus, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham and the prophets died, yet you say, ‘Whoever keeps my word will never die.’ 53Are you greater than our father Abraham? He died and the prophets died, so who do you make yourself out to be?”
54Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is meaningless. My Father, who you say is your God, is the one who glorifies me. 55You don’t know him, but I do. If I said I didn’t know him, I would be like you, a liar. But I do know him, and I keep his word. 56Your father Abraham was overjoyed that he would see my day. He saw it and was happy.”
57“You aren’t even 50 years old!” the Jewish opposition replied. “How can you say that you have seen Abraham?”
58“I assure you,” Jesus replied, “before Abraham was, I Am.” 59So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and left the temple.
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John 8
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1And at dawn he came again to the temple,
2and all the people were coming unto him, and having sat down, he was teaching them;
3and the scribes and the Pharisees bring unto him a woman having been taken in adultery, and having set her in the midst,
4they say to him, ‘Teacher, this woman was taken in the very crime — committing adultery,
5and in the law, Moses did command us that such be stoned; thou, therefore, what dost thou say?’
6and this they said, trying him, that they might have to accuse him. And Jesus, having stooped down, with the finger he was writing on the ground,
7and when they continued asking him, having bent himself back, he said unto them, ‘The sinless of you — let him first cast the stone at her;’
8and again having stooped down, he was writing on the ground,
9and they having heard, and by the conscience being convicted, were going forth one by one, having begun from the elders — unto the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
10And Jesus having bent himself back, and having seen no one but the woman, said to her, ‘Woman, where are those — thine accusers? did no one pass sentence upon thee?’
11and she said, ‘No one, Sir;’ and Jesus said to her, ‘Neither do I pass sentence on thee; be going on, and no more sin.’
12Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, ‘I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.’
13The Pharisees, therefore, said to him, ‘Thou of thyself dost testify, thy testimony is not true;’
14Jesus answered and said to them, ‘And if I testify of myself — my testimony is true, because I have known whence I came, and whither I go, and ye — ye have not known whence I come, or whither I go.
15‘Ye according to the flesh do judge; I do not judge any one,
16and even if I do judge my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me;
17and also in your law it hath been written, that the testimony of two men are true;
18I am [one] who is testifying of myself, and the Father who sent me doth testify of me.’
19They said, therefore, to him, ‘Where is thy father?’ Jesus answered, ‘Ye have neither known me nor my Father: if me ye had known, my Father also ye had known.’
20These sayings spake Jesus in the treasury, teaching in the temple, and no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come;
21therefore said Jesus again to them, ‘I go away, and ye will seek me, and in your sin ye shall die; whither I go away, ye are not able to come.’
22The Jews, therefore, said, ‘Will he kill himself, because he saith, Whither I go away, ye are not able to come?’
23and he said to them, ‘Ye are from beneath, I am from above; ye are of this world, I am not of this world;
24I said, therefore, to you, that ye shall die in your sins, for if ye may not believe that I am [he], ye shall die in your sins.’
25They said, therefore, to him, ‘Thou — who art thou?’ and Jesus said to them, ‘Even what I did speak of to you at the beginning;
26many things I have to speak concerning you and to judge, but He who sent me is true, and I — what things I heard from Him — these I say to the world.’
27They knew not that of the Father he spake to them;
28Jesus, therefore, said to them, ‘When ye may lift up the Son of Man then ye will know that I am [he]; and of myself I do nothing, but according as my Father did teach me, these things I speak;
29and He who sent me is with me; the Father did not leave me alone, because I, the things pleasing to Him, do always.’
30As he is speaking these things, many believed in him;
31Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, ‘If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are,
32and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.’
33They answered him, ‘Seed of Abraham we are; and to no one have we been servants at any time; how dost thou say — Ye shall become free?’
34Jesus answered them, ‘Verily, verily, I say to you — Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin,
35and the servant doth not remain in the house — to the age, the son doth remain — to the age;
36if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.
37‘I have known that ye are seed of Abraham, but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you;
38I — that which I have seen with my Father do speak, and ye, therefore, that which ye have seen with your father — ye do.’
39They answered and said to him, ‘Our father is Abraham;’ Jesus saith to them, ‘If children of Abraham ye were, the works of Abraham ye were doing;
40and now, ye seek to kill me — a man who hath spoken to you the truth I heard from God; this Abraham did not;
41ye do the works of your father.’ They said, therefore, to him, ‘We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have — God;’
42Jesus then said to them, ‘If God were your father, ye were loving me, for I came forth from God, and am come; for neither have I come of myself, but He sent me;
43wherefore do ye not know my speech? because ye are not able to hear my word.
44‘Ye are of a father — the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a manslayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar — also his father.
45‘And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me.
46Who of you doth convict me of sin? and if I speak truth, wherefore do ye not believe me?
47he who is of God, the sayings of God he doth hear; because of this ye do not hear, because of God ye are not.’
48The Jews, therefore, answered and said to him, ‘Do we not say well, that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a demon?’
49Jesus answered, ‘I have not a demon, but I honour my Father, and ye dishonour me;
50and I do not seek my own glory; there is who is seeking and is judging;
51verily, verily, I say to you, If any one may keep my word, death he may not see — to the age.’
52The Jews, therefore, said to him, ‘Now we have known that thou hast a demon; Abraham did die, and the prophets, and thou dost say, If any one may keep my word, he shall not taste of death — to the age!
53Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who died? and the prophets died; whom dost thou make thyself?’
54Jesus answered, ‘If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing; it is my Father who is glorifying me, of whom ye say that He is your God;
55and ye have not known Him, and I have known Him, and if I say that I have not known Him, I shall be like you — speaking falsely; but I have known Him, and His word I keep;
56Abraham, your father, was glad that he might see my day; and he saw, and did rejoice.’
57The Jews, therefore, said unto him, ‘Thou art not yet fifty years old, and Abraham hast thou seen?’
58Jesus said to them, ‘Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham's coming — I am;’
59they took up, therefore, stones that they may cast at him, but Jesus hid himself, and went forth out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
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