¹ but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

² Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them.

³ The scribes and the Pharisees brought¹ a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the midst,

1. M TR add "to him"

⁴ they told him, "Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act.

⁵ Now in the¹ Law, Moses commanded us² to stone such.³ What then do you say about her?"

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2. M omits "us"
3. Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22

⁶ They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger¹.

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⁷ But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her."

⁸ Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.

⁹ They, when they heard it,¹ went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.

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¹⁰ Jesus, standing up,¹ said to her, "Woman, where are they²? Did no one condemn you?"

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2. M TR read "your accusers" instead of "they"

¹¹ She said, "No one, Lord." Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more."

¹² Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world.¹ He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life."

1. Isaiah 60:1

¹³ The Pharisees therefore said to him, "You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid."

¹⁴ Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you do not know where I came from, or where I am going.

¹⁵ You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

¹⁶ Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.

¹⁷ It's also written in your Law that the testimony of two people is valid.¹

1. Deuteronomy 17:6; 19:15

¹⁸ I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me."

¹⁹ They said therefore to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also."

²⁰ Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

²¹ Jesus said therefore again to them, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you cannot come."

²² The Jewish leaders therefore said, "Will he kill himself, that he says, 'Where I am going, you cannot come?'"

²³ He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

²⁴ I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am¹ he, you will die in your sins."

1. Or, "I AM"

²⁵ They said therefore to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.

²⁶ I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world."

²⁷ They did not understand that he spoke to them about the Father.

²⁸ Jesus therefore said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as the¹ Father taught me, I say these things.

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²⁹ He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him."

³⁰ As he spoke these things, many believed in him.

³¹ Jesus therefore said to those Judeans who had believed him, "If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

³² You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."¹

1. Psalm 119:45

³³ They answered him, "We are Abraham's seed, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can you say, 'You will be made free?'"

³⁴ Jesus answered them, "Truly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

³⁵ A bondservant does not live in the house forever. A son remains forever.

³⁶ If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

³⁷ I know that you are Abraham's seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.

³⁸ I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have heard from¹ your father."

1. M TR read "seen with" instead of "heard from"

³⁹ They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.

⁴⁰ But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.

⁴¹ You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."

⁴² Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I have not come of myself, but he sent me.

⁴³ Why do you not understand my speech? Because you cannot hear my word.

⁴⁴ You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

⁴⁵ But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.

⁴⁶ Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

⁴⁷ He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you do not hear, because you are not of God."

⁴⁸ Then the Judeans answered him, "Do not we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?"

⁴⁹ Jesus answered, "I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

⁵⁰ But I do not seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.

⁵¹ Truly, truly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death."

⁵² Then the Judeans said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, 'If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.'

⁵³ Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?"

⁵⁴ Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say 'He is our God.'