1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2 Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and ^btaught them. 3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in ^cadultery, and placing her in the midst 4 they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. 5 Now ^din the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” 6 ^eThis they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. 7 And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, ^f“Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8 And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. 9 But 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. 10 Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” 11 She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on ^gsin no more.”]]

12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, ^h“I am the ⁱlight of the world. Whoever follows me will not ^jwalk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” 13 So the Pharisees said to him, “You are ^kbearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.” 14 Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for ^lI know where I came from and ^mwhere I am going, but ⁿyou do not know where I come from or where I am going. 15 You judge ^oaccording to the flesh; ^pI judge no one. 16 Yet even if I do judge, ^qmy judgment is true, for it is ^rnot I alone who judge, but I and the Father¹ who sent me. 17 ^sIn your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true. 18 I am the one who ^tbears witness about myself, and the Father who sent me ^ubears witness about me.” 19 They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me ^vnor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.” 20 These words he spoke in the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but no one ^warrested him, because ^xhis hour had not yet come.

21 So he said to them ^yagain, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.” 22 So the Jews said, ^z“Will he kill himself, since he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?” 23 He said to them, “You are from below; I am ^afrom above. You are ^bof this world; I am ^cnot of this world. 24 I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you ^dbelieve that I am he you will die in your sins.” 25 So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning. 26 I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is ^etrue, and ^fI declare to the world what I have heard from him.” 27 They ^gdid not understand that he had been speaking to them about the Father. 28 So Jesus said to them, “When you have ^hlifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that ⁱI do nothing on my own authority, but speak ^jjust as the Father taught me. 29 And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.” 30 As he was saying these things, ^kmany believed in him.

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

34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a ^pslave² to sin. 35 ^qThe slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever. 36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. 37 I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you ^rseek to kill me because my word finds no place in you. 38 I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from ^syour father.”

39 They answered him, ^t“Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would be doing the works Abraham did, 40 but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. ^uThis is not what Abraham did. 41 You are doing the works your father did.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. ^vWe have one Father—even God.” 42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, ^wyou would ^xlove me, for I came from God and I am here. ^yI came not of my own accord, but he sent me. 43 Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word. 44 You are of ^zyour father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a ^amurderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and ^bthe father of lies. 45 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me. 46 Which one of you convicts me of sin? ^cIf I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? 47 ^dWhoever is of God hears the words of God. ^eThe reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.”

48 The Jews answered him, “Are we not right in saying that you are a ^fSamaritan and ^ghave a demon?” 49 Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me. 50 Yet I do not ^hseek my own glory; there is One who seeks it, and ⁱhe is the judge. 51 Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone ^jkeeps my word, ^khe will never see death.” 52 The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon! ^lAbraham died, ^mas did the prophets, yet you say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.’ 53 Are you greater ⁿthan our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you ^omake yourself out to be?” 54 Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who ^pglorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’³ 55 But you have not ^qknown him. ^rI know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a ^sliar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word. 56 Your father Abraham ^trejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad.” 57 So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?”⁴ 58 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, ^ubefore Abraham was, ^vI am.” 59 ^wSo ^xthey picked up stones to throw at him, ^ybut Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.