John 8:1–29
8 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.d
2 At dawn he went to the templee again, and all the people were coming to him.f He sat downg and began to teach them.
3 Then the scribes and the Phariseesh brought a woman caught in adultery,i making her stand in the center. 4 “Teacher,” they said to him, “this woman was caught in the act of committing adultery.j 5 In the law Mosesk commanded us to stone such women.l So what do you say?” 6 They asked this to trap him,m in order that they might have evidence to accuse him.
Jesus stooped down and started writing on the ground with his finger. 7 When they persisted in questioning him, he stood up and said to them, “The one without sinn among youo should be the first to throw a stone at her.”p 8 Then he stooped down again and continued writing on the ground. 9 When they heard this, they left one by one, starting with the older men. Only he was left, with the woman in the center. 10 When Jesus stood up, he said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
11 “No one, Lord,”* she answered.
“Neither do I condemn you,”q said Jesus. “Go, and from now on do not sin anymore.”]
12 Jesus spoke to them again: “I amr the lights of the world. Anyone who follows me will never walk in the darkness but will have the light of life.”t
13 So 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.u 15 You judgev by human standards.C,w I judge no one.x 16 And if I do judge, my judgment is true, because it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.y 17 Even in your law it is written that the testimony of two witnesses is true.z 18 I am the one who testifiesaa about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”
19 Then they asked him, “Where is your Father?”
“You know neither me nor my Father,”ab Jesus answered. “If you knew me, you would also know my Father.”ac 20 He spoke these words by the treasury,ad while teaching in the temple. But no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.
21 Then he said to them again, “I’m going away;ae you will look for me, and you will die in your sin.af Where I’m going, you cannot come.”ag
22 So the Jews said again, “He won’t kill himself, will he, since he says, ‘Where I’m going, you cannot come’ah?”
23 “You are from below,” he told them, “I am from above.ai You are of this world;aj I am not of this world.ak 24 Therefore 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 meal is true, and what I have heard from him—these things I tell the world.”am
27 They did not know he was speaking to them about the Father. 28 So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man,an then you will know that I amao he, and that I do nothing on my own.ap But just as the Father taught me, I say these things. 29 The one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone,aq because I always do what pleases him.”