The Good News According to Yochanan, Chapter 8
{8:1} but Yeshua went to the Mount of Olives. {8:2} 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. {8:3} The scribes and the
Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the
midst, {8:4} they told him, "Rabbi, we found this woman in adultery,
in the very act. {8:5} Now in our Torah, Moses commanded us to stone
such.[1] What then do you say about her?" {8:6} They said this testing
him, that they might have something to accuse him of.
But Yeshua stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger.
{8:7} 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." {8:8} Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the
ground.
{8:9} They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience,
went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last.
Yeshua was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.
{8:10} Yeshua, standing up, saw her and said, "Woman, where are your
accusers? Did no one condemn you?"
{8:11} She said, "No one, Lord."
Yeshua said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on,
sin no more."
{8:12} Again, therefore, Yeshua spoke to them, saying, "I am the
light of the world.[2] He who follows me will not walk in the
darkness, but will have the light of life."
{8:13} The Pharisees therefore said to him, "You testify about
yourself. Your testimony is not valid."
{8:14} Yeshua 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 don't know where I came from, or where I am going. {8:15} You
judge according to the flesh. I judge no one. {8:16} Even if I do
judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the
Father who sent me. {8:17} It's also written in your Torah that the
testimony of two people is valid.[3] {8:18} I am one who testifies
about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me."
{8:19} They said therefore to him, "Where is your Father?"
Yeshua answered, "You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew
me, you would know my Father also." {8:20} Yeshua spoke these words in
the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him,
because his hour had not yet come. {8:21} Yeshua 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 can't come."
{8:22} The Judeans therefore said, "Will he kill himself, that he
says, 'Where I am going, you can't come?'"
{8:23} He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You
are of this world. I am not of this world. {8:24} I said therefore to
you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that [4>]I
am[<4] he, you will die in your sins."
{8:25} They said therefore to him, "Who are you?"
Yeshua said to them, "Just what I have been saying to you from the
beginning. {8:26} 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."
{8:27} They didn't understand that he spoke to them about the
Father. {8:28} Yeshua 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 my Father taught me, I say these things. {8:29} 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."
{8:30} As he spoke these things, many believed in him. {8:31} Yeshua
therefore said to those Judeans who had believed him, "If you remain
in my word, then you are truly my disciples. {8:32} You will know the
truth, and the truth will make you free."[5]
{8:33} They answered him, "We are Abraham's seed, and have never
been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, 'You will be made free?'"
{8:34} Yeshua answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone
who commits sin is the bondservant of sin. {8:35} A bondservant
doesn't live in the house forever. A son remains forever. {8:36} If
therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. {8:37} I
know that you are Abraham's seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my
word finds no place in you. {8:38} I say the things which I have seen
with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with
your father."
{8:39} They answered him, "Our father is Abraham."
Yeshua said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do
the works of Abraham. {8:40} But now you seek to kill me, a man who
has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn't do
this. {8:41} You do the works of your father."
They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have
one Father, God."
{8:42} Therefore Yeshua said to them, "If God were your father, you
would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven't
come of myself, but he sent me. {8:43} Why don't you understand my
speech? Because you can't hear my word. {8:44} 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 doesn't 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. {8:45} But because I tell the truth,
you don't believe me. {8:46} Which of you convicts me of sin? If I
tell the truth, why do you not believe me? {8:47} He who is of God
hears the words of God. For this cause you don't hear, because you are
not of God."
{8:48} Then the Judeans answered him, "Don't we say well that you
are a Samaritan, and have a demon?"
{8:49} Yeshua answered, "I don't have a demon, but I honor my
Father, and you dishonor me. {8:50} But I don't seek my own glory.
There is one who seeks and judges. {8:51} Most certainly, I tell you,
if a person keeps my word, he will never see death."
{8:52} 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.' {8:53} Are you greater than our
father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself
out to be?"
{8:54} Yeshua answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing.
It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.
{8:55} You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't
know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his
word. {8:56} Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it,
and was glad."
{8:57} The Judeans therefore said to him, "You are not yet fifty
years old, and have you seen Abraham?"
{8:58} Yeshua said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, before
Abraham came into existence, [6>]I AM.[<6]"
{8:59} Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Yeshua was
hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through their midst,
and so passed by.
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Footnotes:
[1] {8:5} Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22
[2] {8:12} Isaiah 60:1
[3] {8:17} Deuteronomy 17:6; 19:15
[4] {8:24} or, I AM
[5] {8:32} Psalm 119:45
[6] {8:58} or, I am
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