Gospels & ActsNew Testament
Chapter 8· Book IV of 27
1Verse 1. Open verse actions.but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2Verse 2. Open verse actions.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. 3Verse 3. Open verse actions.The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle, 4Verse 4. Open verse actions.they told him, “Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act. 5Verse 5. Open verse actions.Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. What then do you say about her?” 6Verse 6. Open verse actions.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 finger. 7Verse 7. Open verse actions.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.” 8Verse 8. Open verse actions.Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground. 9Verse 9. Open verse actions.They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, 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. 10Verse 10. Open verse actions.Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, “Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?” 11Verse 11. Open verse actions.She said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.” 12Verse 12. Open verse actions.Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.” 13Verse 13. Open verse actions.The Pharisees therefore said to him, “You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid.” 14Verse 14. Open verse actions.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 don’t know where I came from, or where I am going. 15Verse 15. Open verse actions.You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one. 16Verse 16. Open verse actions.Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me. 17Verse 17. Open verse actions.It’s also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid. 18Verse 18. Open verse actions.I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me.” 19Verse 19. Open verse actions.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.” 20Verse 20. Open verse actions.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. 21Verse 21. Open verse actions.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 can’t come.” 22Verse 22. Open verse actions.The Jews therefore said, “Will he kill himself, that he says, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come’?” 23Verse 23. Open verse actions.He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world. 24Verse 24. Open verse actions.I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.” 25Verse 25. Open verse actions.They said therefore to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning. 26Verse 26. Open verse actions.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.” 27Verse 27. Open verse actions.They didn’t understand that he spoke to them about the Father. 28Verse 28. Open verse actions.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 my Father taught me, I say these things. 29Verse 29. Open verse actions.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.” 30Verse 30. Open verse actions.As he spoke these things, many believed in him. 31Verse 31. Open verse actions.Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. 32Verse 32. Open verse actions.You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” 33Verse 33. Open verse actions.They answered him, “We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free’?” 34Verse 34. Open verse actions.Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin. 35Verse 35. Open verse actions.A bondservant doesn’t live in the house forever. A son remains forever. 36Verse 36. Open verse actions.If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. 37Verse 37. Open verse actions.I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you. 38Verse 38. Open verse actions.I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.” 39Verse 39. Open verse actions.They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham. 40Verse 40. Open verse actions.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. 41Verse 41. Open verse actions.You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.” 42Verse 42. Open verse actions.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 haven’t come of myself, but he sent me. 43Verse 43. Open verse actions.Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word. 44Verse 44. Open verse actions.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. 45Verse 45. Open verse actions.But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me. 46Verse 46. Open verse actions.Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? 47Verse 47. Open verse actions.He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.” 48Verse 48. Open verse actions.Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?” 49Verse 49. Open verse actions.Jesus answered, “I don’t have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me. 50Verse 50. Open verse actions.But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges. 51Verse 51. Open verse actions.Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.” 52Verse 52. Open verse actions.Then the Jews 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.’ 53Verse 53. Open verse actions.Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?” 54Verse 54. Open verse actions.Jesus 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. 55Verse 55. Open verse actions.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. 56Verse 56. Open verse actions.Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad.” 57Verse 57. Open verse actions.The Jews therefore said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?” 58Verse 58. Open verse actions.Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM. ” 59Verse 59. Open verse actions.Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.