John 7:1–8:30

1  And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee, for he would not walk in Judaea, because the Jews sought to kill him. 2  Now the tabernacles, the feast of the Jews, was near. 3  His brethren therefore said to him, Remove hence and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see thy works which thou doest; 4  for no one does anything in secret and himself seeks to be known in public. If thou doest these things, manifest thyself to the world: 5  for neither did his brethren believe on him. 6  Jesus therefore says to them, My time is not yet come, but your time is always ready. 7  The world cannot hate you, but me it hates, because I bear witness concerning it that its works are evil. 8  Ye, go ye up to this feast. I go not up to this feast, for my time is not yet fulfilled. 9  Having said these things to them he abode in Galilee. 10  But when his brethren had gone up, then he himself also went up to the feast, not openly, but as in secret. 11  The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he? 12  And there was much murmuring concerning him among the crowds. Some said, He is a good man; others said, No; but he deceives the crowd. 13  However, no one spoke openly concerning him on account of their fear of the Jews.

14  But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. 15  The Jews therefore wondered, saying, How knows this man letters, having never learned? 16  Jesus therefore answered them and said, My doctrine is not mine, but that of him that has sent me. 17  If any one desire to practise his will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is of God, or that I speak from myself. 18  He that speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but he that seeks the glory of him that has sent him, he is true, and unrighteousness is not in him. 19  Has not Moses given you the law, and no one of you practises the law? Why do ye seek to kill me? 20  The crowd answered and said, Thou hast a demon: who seeks to kill thee? 21  Jesus answered and said to them, I have done one work, and ye all wonder. 22  Therefore Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and ye circumcise a man on sabbath. 23  If a man receives circumcision on sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be violated, are ye angry with me because I have made a man entirely sound on sabbath? 24  Judge not according to sight, but judge righteous judgment. 25  Some therefore of those of Jerusalem said, Is not this he whom they seek to kill? 26  and behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers then indeed recognised that this is the Christ? 27  But as to this man we know whence he is. Now as to the Christ, when he comes, no one knows whence he is. 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? 11  And she said, No one, sir. And Jesus said to her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

12  Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world; he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. 13  The Pharisees therefore said to him, Thou bearest witness concerning thyself; thy witness is not true. 14  Jesus answered and said to them, Even if I bear witness concerning myself, my witness is true, because I know whence I came and whither I go: but ye know not whence I come and whither I go. 15  Ye judge according to the flesh, I judge no one. 16  And if also I judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who has sent me. 17  And in your law too it is written that the testimony of two men is true: 18  I am one who bear witness concerning myself, and the Father who has sent me bears witness concerning me. 19  They said to him therefore, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye know neither me nor my Father. If ye had known me, ye would have known also my Father. 20  These words spoke he in the treasury, teaching in the temple; and no one took him, for his hour was not yet come.

21  He said therefore again to them, I go away, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sin; where I go ye cannot come. 22  The Jews therefore said, Will he kill himself, that he says, Where I go ye cannot come? 23  And he said to them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above. Ye are of this world; I am not of this world. 24  I said therefore to you, that ye shall die in your sins; for unless ye shall believe that I am he, ye shall die in your sins. 25  They said therefore to him, Who art thou? And Jesus said to them, Altogether that which I also say to you. 26  I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but he that has sent me is true, and I, what I have heard from him, these things I say to the world. 27  They knew not that he spoke to them of the Father. 28  Jesus therefore said to them, When ye shall have lifted up the Son of man, then ye shall know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself, but as the Father has taught me I speak these things. 29  And he that has sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, because I do always the things that are pleasing to him. 30  As he spoke these things many believed on him.