John 8
Worldwide English (New Testament)
8 Then Jesus went to the hill called the Mount of Olives.
2 Early the next morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him. He sat down and taught them.
3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman to Jesus. They had caught her having sex with a man who was not her husband. They made the woman stand in front of them.
4 They said, `Teacher, this woman has committed adultery. She was caught doing it.
5 The law of Moses tells us that the people who do that should be killed with stones. What do you say?'
6 They said this to see what Jesus would do, because they wanted to find something wrong with him. Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.
7 They kept on asking him. He stood up and said to them, `The one among you who has never done any wrong thing may throw the first stone at her.'
8 And Jesus bent down again and wrote on the ground.
9 When the people heard what he said, they went out, one by one. The oldest one went out first. Jesus was left alone with the woman in front of him.
10 Jesus looked up and said to her, `Woman, where are the people? Has no one judged you?'
11 She said, `No one, Sir.' Jesus said, `I also do not judge you. Go, and do no wrong thing again.'
12 Then Jesus talked to the people in the temple. He said, `I am the Light of the world. The one who comes with me will never walk in the dark, but he will have light that gives life.'
13 The Pharisees said, `You are talking about yourself. What you say is not true.'
14 Jesus said to them, `Even if I do talk about myself, what I say is true. I know where I come from and I know where I am going. But you do not know where I came from, or where I am going.
15 You judge in the way people judge matters. I do not judge any person.
16 But even if I do judge, I judge right. I am not alone. My Father who sent me is with me.
17 Even in your law it says that when two people say the same thing, it is true.
18 I talk about myself, and my Father who sent me talks about me.'
19 They asked him, `Where is your Father?' He said, `You do not know me and you do not know my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.'
20 When Jesus said these words he was teaching in the temple. He was in the place where the money is kept. No one caught him because it was not yet his time.
21 Jesus talked to them again. He said, `I am going away. You will try to find me and will die doing wrong things. You cannot come where I am going.'
22 Then the Jews said, `Will he kill himself? He says, "You cannot come where I am going." '
23 Jesus said to them, `You are from below. I am from above. You belong to this world. I do not belong to this world.
24 That is why I said, "You will die doing wrong things." If you do not believe that I am who I said I am, then you will die doing wrong things.'
25 They said to him, `Who are you?' Jesus answered, `I am what I told you from the beginning.
26 I have many things to say to you and to judge you in many things. But he who sent me is true. I tell the world what he has told me.'
27 The people did not understand that Jesus was talking to them about his Father.
28 So Jesus said, `When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he. You will know that I do nothing by my own power, but I talk the way my Father taught me.
29 He who sent me is with me always. I always do what he wants me to do.'
30 Many people believed in Jesus while he was talking this way.
31 Jesus said to the Jews who believed in him, `If you obey my word, you are truly my disciples.
32 And you will understand the truth and the truth will make you free.'
33 They said to him, `We are Abraham's children. We have always been free. Why do you say to us, "You will be free"?'
34 Jesus answered them, `I tell you the truth. People who do wrong things are not free. They become a slave of the wrong things they do.
35 A slave does not belong to the family for ever. But a son belongs for ever.
36 So if the Son makes you free, you will be truly free.
37 I know that you come from Abraham. But you want to kill me because you do not like what I tell you.
38 I tell you about the things that I have seen where my Father is, and you do what you have seen your father do.'
39 They answered him, `Abraham is our father.' Jesus said, `If you were Abraham's children, you would do what Abraham did.
40 But you want to kill me because I told you the truth which I learned from God. Abraham did not do that.
41 You are doing your father's work.' Then they said to him, `We were not born of an unmarried woman. God is the Father of us all.'
42 Jesus said to them, `If God were your Father you would love me, because I have come from God. I did not come by my own power. God sent me.
43 Why do you not understand what I say? I will tell you why. It is because you do not want to understand it.
44 `The bad spirit, the devil, is your real father. You gladly do the wrong things he wants you to do. From the beginning he killed people. He has nothing to do with what is true. His way is to tell lies. He himself is a liar and all lying comes from him.
45 You do not believe me because I tell you what is true.
46 Which one of you can prove that what I have done is bad? I tell you what is true. Why then do you not believe me?
47 The person who comes from God listens to what God says. You do not come from God. That is why you do not listen to me.'
48 The leaders of the Jews answered him, `We say what is true. We say that you come from Samaria. And we say that a bad spirit is in you.'
49 Jesus said, `I have no bad spirit in me. I respect my Father but you do not respect me.
50 I do not want to make myself great. There is one who makes me great. He judges the matter.
51 I tell you the truth. If anyone obeys my word, he will never die.'
52 The leaders of the Jews said to him, `Now we know it is true that a bad spirit is in you. Abraham died. So did the prophets. And yet you say, "If anyone obeys my word, he will never die."
53 Are you greater than our father Abraham and the prophets of God who died long ago? Who do you make yourself out to be?'
54 Jesus answered, `If I make myself great, then I am not great. But my Father makes me great. You say he is your God.
55 But you do not know God. I know him. If I say, "I do not know him," I am a liar, just as you people are. But I know him and I obey his word.
56 Your father Abraham was glad that he would see my coming. He did see it and he was very glad.'
57 The Jewish leaders said to him, `You are not fifty years old yet. How could Abraham see you?'
58 Jesus answered, `I tell you the truth. I already was before Abraham was born.'
59 Then they picked up stones to throw at him. But Jesus got out of their way. He left the temple and they did not know where he went.
John 8
King James Version
8 Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.
2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.
3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
13 The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest record of thyself; thy record is not true.
14 Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go.
15 Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.
16 And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.
17 It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.
18 I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.
19 Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.
20 These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.
21 Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.
22 Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come.
23 And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
25 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.
26 I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
27 They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.
28 Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.
29 And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
30 As he spake these words, many believed on him.
31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
33 They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.
36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
37 I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.
38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
46 Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
47 He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
48 Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
49 Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.
50 And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.
51 Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
52 Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.
53 Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?
54 Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:
55 Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.
56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.
57 Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
59 Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
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