John 7:28–8:10

28  Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, Ye both know me and ye know whence I am; and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye do not know. 29  I know him, because I am from him, and he has sent me. 30  They sought therefore to take him; and no one laid his hand upon him, because his hour had not yet come. 31  But many of the crowd believed on him, and said, Will the Christ, when he comes, do more signs than those which this man has done? 32  The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things concerning him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers that they might take him. 33  Jesus therefore said, Yet a little while I am with you, and I go to him that has sent me. 34  Ye shall seek me and shall not find me, and where I am ye cannot come. 35  The Jews therefore said to one another, Where is he about to go that we shall not find him? Is he about to go to the dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? 36  What word is this which he said, Ye shall seek me and shall not find me; and where I am ye cannot come?

37  In the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried saying, If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink. 38  He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39  But this he said concerning the Spirit, which they that believed on him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified. 40  Some out of the crowd therefore, having heard this word, said, This is truly the prophet. 41  Others said, This is the Christ. Others said, Does then the Christ come out of Galilee? 42  Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from the village of Bethlehem, where David was? 43  There was a division therefore in the crowd on account of him. 44  But some of them desired to take him, but no one laid hands upon him.

45  The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, Why have ye not brought him? 46  The officers answered, Never man spoke thus, as this man speaks. 47  The Pharisees therefore answered them, Are ye also deceived? 48  Has any one of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees? 49  But this crowd, which does not know the law, are accursed. 50  Nicodemus says to them (being one of themselves), 51  Does our law judge a man before it have first heard from himself, and know what he does? 52  They answered and said to him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search and look, that no prophet arises out of Galilee. 53  And every one went to his home.

Chapter 8

1  But Jesus went to the mount of Olives. 2  And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him; and he sat down and taught them. 3  And the scribes and the Pharisees bring to him a woman taken in adultery, and having set her in the midst, 4  they say to him, Teacher, this woman has been taken in the very act, committing adultery. 5  Now in the law Moses has commanded us to stone such; thou therefore, what sayest thou? 6  But this they said proving him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus, having stooped down, wrote with his finger on the ground. 7  But when they continued asking him, he lifted himself up and said to them, Let him that is without sin among you first cast the stone at her. 8  And again stooping down he wrote on the ground. 9  But they, having heard that, went out one by one beginning from the elder ones until the last; and Jesus was left alone and the woman standing there. 10  And Jesus, lifting himself up and seeing no one but the woman, said to her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? Has no one condemned thee?