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 midst, 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. 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 with his finger wrote on the ground.
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.”
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, that 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 seed, and have never been in
bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free?’”
34 Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly 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 seed, 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 it. 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 assuredly, 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, and 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, and
have you seen Abraham?”
58 Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I tell you, before Abraham
came into existence, I AM.”
59 Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden,
and went out of the temple, having gone through the midst of them, and so
passed by.
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