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John Chapter 8 008:001 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 008:002 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. 008:003 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the midst, 008:004 they told him, "Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act.
008:005 Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such.{Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22} What then do you say about her?" 008:006 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. 008:007 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." 008:008 Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.
008:009 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. 008:010 Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, "Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?" 008:011 She said, "No one, Lord." Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go your way.
From now on, sin no more." 008:012 Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world.{Isaiah 60:1} He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life." 008:013 The Pharisees therefore said to him, "You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid." 008:014 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.
008:015 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one. 008:016 Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me. 008:017 It's also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid.{Deuteronomy 17:6; 19:15} 008:018 I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me." 008:019 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." 008:020 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. 008:021 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." 008:022 The Jews therefore said, "Will he kill himself, that he says, 'Where I am going, you can't come?'" 008:023 He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above.
You are of this world. I am not of this world. 008:024 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." 008:025 They said therefore to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning. 008:026 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." 008:027 They didn't understand that he spoke to them about the Father. 008:028 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. 008:029 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." 008:030 As he spoke these things, many believed in him. 008:031 Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. 008:032 You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."{Psalm 119:45} 008:033 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?'" 008:034 Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin. 008:035 A bondservant doesn't live in the house forever. A son remains forever. 008:036 If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. 008:037 I know that you are Abraham's seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.
008:038 I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father." 008:039 They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham. 008:040 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. 008:041 You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality.
We have one Father, God." 008:042 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. 008:043 Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word. 008:044 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. 008:045 But because I tell the truth, you don't believe me. 008:046 Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? 008:047 He who is of God hears the words of God.
For this cause you don't hear, because you are not of God." 008:048 Then the Jews answered him, "Don't we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?" 008:049 Jesus answered, "I don't have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me. 008:050 But I don't seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges. 008:051 Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death." 008:052 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.' 008:053 Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?" 008:054 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. 008:055 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.
008:056 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad." 008:057 The Jews therefore said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?" 008:058 Jesus said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM." 008:059 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.