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1258 // John 8
[The most ancient Greek manuscripts do
not include John 7:53–8:11.]
Then the meeting broke up, and every
body went home.
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A WOMAN CAUGHT IN ADULTERY
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Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives, 2 but early the next morning he
was back again at the Temple. A crowd
soon gathered, and he sat down and
taught them. 3 As he was speaking, the
teachers of religious law and the Phar
isees brought a woman who had been
caught in the act of adultery. They put
her in front of the crowd.
4 “Teacher,” they said to J
esus, “this
woman was caught in the act of adultery.
5 The law of Moses says to stone her. What
do you say?”
6 They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against
him, but J esus stooped down and wrote
in the dust with his finger. 7 They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again
and said, “All right, but let the one who
has never sinned throw the first stone!”
8 Then he stooped down again and wrote
in the dust.
9 When the accusers heard this, they
slipped away one by one, beginning with
the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the
middle of the crowd with the woman.
10 Then Jesus stood up again and said to
the woman, “Where are your accusers?
Didn’t even one of them condemn you?”
11 “No, Lord,” she said.
And J esus said, “Neither do I. Go and
sin no more.”
JESUS, THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
Jesus spoke to the people once more
and said, “I am the light of the world. If
you follow me, you won’t have to walk in
darkness, because you will have the light
that leads to life.”
13 The Pharisees replied, “You are making those claims about yourself! Such
testimony is not valid.”
14
Jesus told them, “These claims are
valid even though I make them about myself. For I know where I came from and
where I am going, but you don’t know this
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about me. 15 You judge me by human standards, but I do not judge anyone. 16 And
if I did, my judgment would be correct in
every respect because I am not alone. The
Father* who sent me is with me. 17 Your
own law says that if two people agree
about something, their witness is accepted as fact.* 18 I am one witness, and
my Father who sent me is the other.”
19 “Where is your father?” they asked.
Jesus answered, “Since you don’t
know who I am, you don’t know who my
Father is. If you knew me, you would also
know my Father.” 20 Jesus made these
statements while he was teaching in the
section of the Temple known as the Treasury. But he was not arrested, because
his time* had not yet come.
THE UNBELIEVING PEOPLE WARNED
21 Later J
esus said to them again, “I am
going away. You will search for me but
will die in your sin. You cannot come
where I am going.”
22 The people* asked, “Is he planning
to commit suicide? What does he mean,
‘You cannot come where I am going’?”
23
Jesus continued, “You are from
below; I am from above. You belong to
this world; I do not. 24 That is why I said
that you will die in your sins; for unless
you believe that I Am who I claim to be,*
you will die in your sins.”
25 “Who are you?” they demanded.
Jesus replied, “The one I have always
claimed to be.* 26 I have much to say about
you and much to condemn, but I won’t.
For I say only what I have heard from the
one who sent me, and he is completely
truthful.” 27 But they still didn’t understand that he was talking about his Father.
28 So Jesus said, “When you have lifted
up the Son of Man on the cross, then you
will understand that I Am he.* I do nothing on my own but say only what the
Father taught me. 29 And the one who
sent me is with me—he has not deserted
me. For I always do what pleases him.”
30 Then many who heard him say these
things believed in him.
8:16 Some manuscripts read The One.
8:17 See Deut
19:15.
8:20 Greek his hour.
8:22 Greek Jewish people;
also in 8:31, 48, 52, 57. 8:24 Greek unless you believe
that I am. See Exod 3:14. 8:25 Or Why do I speak to you
at all?
8:28 Greek When you have lifted up the Son of
Man, then you will know that I am. “Son of Man” is a title
Jesus used for himself.
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