John 8:2–20

AN ADULTERESS FORGIVEN

²At dawn he went to the temple^e again, and all the people were coming to him.^f He sat down^g and began to teach them.

³Then the scribes and the Pharisees^h 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 Moses^k commanded us to stone such women.^l So what do you say?” ⁶They 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. ⁷When they persisted in questioning him, he stood up and said to them, “The one without sinⁿ among you^o should be the first to throw a stone at her.”^{p 8}Then 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,” she answered.

“Neither do I condemn you,”^q said Jesus. “Go, and from now on do not sin anymore.”]

THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD

¹²Jesus spoke to them again: “I am^r the light^s of the world. Anyone who follows me will never walk in the darkness but will have the light of life.”^t

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.^{u 15}You judge^v by human standards.^Dw 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 testifies^aa 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,”^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.