¹but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. ²bEarly in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and che sat down and taught them. ³The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst ⁴they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. ⁵Now din the Law, Moses commanded us eto stone such women. So what do you say?” ⁶This they said fto test him, gthat they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. ⁷And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, h“Let him who is without sin among you ibe the first to throw a stone at her.” ⁸And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. ⁹But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. ¹⁰Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” ¹¹She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, j“Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on ksin no more.”]]

I Am the Light of the World

¹²lAgain Jesus spoke to them, saying, m“I am the light of the world. Whoever nfollows me will not owalk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” ¹³So the Pharisees said to him, p“You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.” ¹⁴Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, qmy testimony is true, for I know rwhere I came from and swhere I am going, but tyou do not know where I come from or where I am going. ¹⁵uYou judge according to the flesh; vI judge no one. ¹⁶Yet even if I do judge, wmy judgment is true, for xit is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father1 who sent me. ¹⁷yIn your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true. ¹⁸I am the one who bears witness about myself, and zthe Father who sent me bears witness about me.” ¹⁹They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, a“You know neither me nor my Father. bIf you knew me, you would know my Father also.” ²⁰These words he spoke in cthe treasury, as he taught in the temple; but dno one arrested him, because ehis hour had not yet come.

²¹So he said to them again, f“I am going away, and gyou will seek me, and hyou will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.” ²²So the Jews said, i“Will he kill himself, since he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?” ²³He said to them, j“You are from below; I am from above. kYou are of this world; lI am not of this world. ²⁴I told you that you mwould die in your sins, for nunless you believe that oI am he you will die in your sins.” ²⁵So they said to him, p“Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning. ²⁶I have much to say about you and much to judge, but qhe who sent me is true, and I declare rto the world swhat I have heard from him.” ²⁷They did not understand that the had been speaking to them about the Father. ²⁸So Jesus said to them, “When you have ulifted up the Son of Man, vthen you will know that wI am he, and that xI do nothing on my own authority, but yspeak just as the Father taught me. ²⁹And zhe who sent me is with me. zHe has not left me alone, for aI always do the things that are pleasing to him.” ³⁰As he was saying these things, bmany believed in him.

The Truth Will Set You Free

³¹So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, c“If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, ³²and you will dknow the truth, and the truth ewill set you free.” ³³They answered him, f“We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?”

³⁴Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, geveryone who practices sin is a slave2 to sin. ³⁵hThe slave does not remain in the house forever; ithe son remains forever. ³⁶So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. ³⁷I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet jyou seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you. ³⁸kI speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard lfrom your father.”

You Are of Your Father the Devil

³⁹They answered him, m“Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, n“If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing the works Abraham did, ⁴⁰but now oyou seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth pthat I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did. ⁴¹You are doing the works your father did.” They said to him, q“We were not born of sexual immorality. We have rone Father—even God.” ⁴²Jesus said to them, s“If God were your Father, you would love me, for tI came from God and uI am here. vI came not of my own accord, but whe sent me. ⁴³xWhy do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot ybear to hear my word. ⁴⁴zYou are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. aHe was a murderer from the beginning, and bdoes not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. cWhen he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. ⁴⁵But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me. ⁴⁶Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? ⁴⁷dWhoever is of God hears the words of God. eThe reason why you do not hear them is that fyou are not of God.”

Before Abraham Was, I Am

⁴⁸The Jews answered him, “Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and ghave a demon?” ⁴⁹Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon, but hI honor my Father, and you dishonor me. ⁵⁰Yet iI do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it, and he is the judge. ⁵¹Truly, truly, jI say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never ksee death.” ⁵²The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon! lAbraham died, as did the prophets, yet myou say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never ntaste death.’ ⁵³oAre you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself out to be?” ⁵⁴Jesus answered, p“If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. qIt is my Father who glorifies me, rof whom you say, ‘He is our God.’3 ⁵⁵But syou have not known him. tI know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be ua liar vlike you, but I do know him and I keep his word. ⁵⁶wYour father Abraham xrejoiced ythat he would see my day. zHe saw it and was glad.” ⁵⁷So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?”4 ⁵⁸Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, aI am.” ⁵⁹So bthey picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.