Chapter 8                         

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<		 8:2 Then at daybreak, He returned into the temple and to all the people coming towards Him. Having sat down, He taught them. 3 Then the writers and teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought to Him a woman having been caught in adultery. Having set her between Jesus and themselves, 4 they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. 5 (As You well know}, in the law, Moses commanded such a person to be stoned. What, therefore, do You say?” 6 They were saying this to tempt Him, so that they might possess the evidence to accuse Him. But Jesus, having stooped down, began writing on the ground with His finger.

7 As they continued asking Him, however, He stood up and said to them, “The one who is unerring and faultless among you, let him cast the first stone at her.” 8 Stooping down again, He continued to write on the ground. 9 After hearing this, being exposed in their own consciousness, they began to go away, one by one, beginning with the older ones until the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman. 10 Jesus stood up again, and seeing no one but the woman, He said to her, “Woman, where are those who accuse you? Has no one condemned you?” 11 And she said, “No one, Lord.” Then Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on, sin no more.”

• 12 Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to those [who heard], saying, “I am the light of the world-cosmos; the one accompanying Me shall not walk in the darkness [of dishonesty], but will possess the light of life.” 13 In response, the Pharisees said to Him, “You are bearing witness concerning Yourself; Your testimony is not true.” 14 Jesus answered them, “Even if I do bear witness concerning Myself, My testimony is true, because I know from where I came and to where I am going. You, however, do not know from where I come or to where I am going. • 15 You judge according to the finest details of the flesh, but I do not judge anyone. 16 Yet if I were to judge, My judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent Me. 17 In your law also, it is written that the testimony of two people is true. 18 I bear witness concerning Myself, and the Father who sent Me testifies concerning Me.”

19 In response again, they said to Him, “Where is Your Father?” Jesus answered, “You perceive and consider neither Me nor My Father. If you had perceived and considered Me, you would also have perceived and considered My Father.” 20 These words He spoke in the treasury, teaching in the temple, and no one arrested Him, for His hour had not yet come.

21 Then, Jesus said again to them, “I am going away, and you will search for Me, and in your sin and disconnection from God, you will die. Where I go, you are not able to come.” 22 Therefore, the Judeans said to each other, “Will He then kill Himself, that He says, ‘Where I go, you are not able to come’?” 23 Jesus answered them, “You are out from below; I am out from above. You are out from this world-cosmos; I am not out from this world {of death coming out from Adam’s rebellion}. 24  For that reason I said to you that you will die inside your sins. Unless you believe that I Am, you will die inside your sins and your disconnection from God.”

25  In response, they said to Him, “Who are You?” • Jesus answered, “From the start, I have been speaking to you, 26 and I have many things to say and to judge concerning you; but the One who sent Me is true; and what I have heard in His presence are the things I speak into the world-cosmos.”  27 But because they did not know that the Father was speaking to them, • 28 Jesus said to them, “When you have raised high the Son of Man, then you will know that I Am, and that I do nothing out from Myself. Instead I speak as the Father has taught Me. 29 The One who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what is pleasing to Him.” 30 As He spoke this, many believed in Him.

31 Therefore Jesus said to those Judeans who believed in Him, • “If you abide and continue inside of My word, you are truly My disciples. • 32 You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” 33 They answered Him, “We are the seed of Abraham, and we have been under bondage to no one, ever. How is it that You say, ‘You will become free?’” 34 Jesus answered them, “Let it be so, it is so, as I say to you. Everyone who sins, doing that which is disconnected from God, is a slave of sin. 35 Now, the slave does not remain in the house into the age, but only a son remains into the age. • 35 If the Son makes you free, you will be truly free.”

37 “I know that you are the offspring of Abraham; but you seek to kill Me, because My word does not receive a place inside of you. 31 That which I have seen in the presence of the Father, I speak; but you do what you have heard from your ‘father.’” 39 They answered Him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus replied, “If you were children born out from Abraham, you would do the works of Abraham. 40 Yet you seek to kill Me, a Man who has spoken the truth to you, truth that I heard in the presence of God. Abraham did not do this. 41 You are doing the works of your father.” They said to Him, “We have not been born of sexual immorality; we have one Father, God.”

42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I come out from God and am now here. More than that, I have not come for Myself, but He sent Me. 43 Why is it that you do not know the meaning of My speech? It is because you are not able to hear My word. • 44 You are of the “father,” the devil, and the desires of your father you choose to do. He was a murderer right from the start. He does not stay inside the truth, for there is no truth inside of him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks out from his own person; for he is a liar and the father of lies. 45 Yet, even though I speak the truth, you do not believe Me! 46 Which of you shows Me to be guilty of sin? If I speak the truth, why do you not believe Me? The one who is out from God hears the words of God. You do not hear because you are not out from God.”

48 The Judeans answered Him, “Did we not rightly say that You are a Samaritan and possess a demon?” 49 Jesus answered, “I do not possess a demon; but I honor My Father even while you dishonor Me. 50 I do not now seek My own glory, but there is One who seeks and judges. • 51 Let it be so, it is so, as I say to you. If anyone keeps, guards, and watches over My word, he shall never gaze upon or experience death even into the age.”

52 The Judeans therefore said to Him, “Now we know that you possess a demon. Abraham died, as well as the prophets, and You say, ‘If anyone keeps My word, he will never taste or experience death even into the age.’ 53 Are You greater than our father Abraham who died? And the prophets died! Who do You think You are?” 54 Jesus answered, “If I glorify Myself, My glory is nothing. It is My Father who glorifies Me, of whom you say that He is your God. 55 Yet you have not known Him; I, on the other hand, do perceive and consider Him. If I were to say that I do not perceive and consider Him, I would be like you, a liar. But I do perceive and consider Him, and I keep, guard, and watch over His word. 56 Abraham your father rejoiced in the opportunity to look upon My day, and he saw it and rejoiced. {u}

57 For that reason, the Judeans said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and You have seen Abraham?” 58 Jesus replied, “Let it be so, it is so, as I say to you. Before Abraham became, I Am.” 59 They took up stones in response, that they might throw them at Him. Jesus hid Himself, however, and went out of the temple, and, passing through their midst, He departed.
 		  
 
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