John 8:1-19 ▼

1 And at dawn He came again to the temple [courts],

2 and all the people were coming to Him, and having sat down, He was teaching them;

3 and the scribes and the Pharisees bring to Him a woman having been taken in adultery, and having set her in the midst,

4 they say to Him, “Teacher, this woman was taken in the very crime [of] committing adultery,

5 and in the Law, Moses commanded us that such be stoned; You, therefore, what do You say?”

6 And this they said, trying Him, that they might have to accuse Him. And Jesus, having stooped down, with the finger He was writing on the ground,

7 and when they continued asking Him, having bent Himself back, He said to them, “The sinless of you—let him cast the first stone at her”;

8 and again having stooped down, He was writing on the ground,

9 and they having heard, and being convicted by the conscience, were going forth one by one, having begun from the elders—to the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

10 And Jesus having bent Himself back, and having seen no one but the woman, said to her, “Woman, where are those—your accusers? Did no one pass sentence on you?”

11 And she said, “No one, Lord”; and Jesus said to her, “Neither do I pass sentence on you; be going on, and sin no more.”]]

12 Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I AM the light of the world; he who is following Me will not walk in the darkness, but he will have the light of life.”

13 The Pharisees, therefore, said to Him, “You testify of Yourself, Your testimony is not true”;

14 Jesus answered and said to them, “And if I testify of Myself—My testimony is true, because I have known from where I came, and to where I go, and you have not known from where I come, or to where I go.

15 You judge according to the flesh; I do not judge anyone,

16 and even if I do judge My judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent Me;

17 and also in your law it has been written that the testimony of two men is true;

18 I am [One] who is testifying of Myself, and the Father who sent Me testifies of Me.”

19 They said, therefore, to Him, “Where is Your father?” Jesus answered, “You have neither known Me nor My Father: if you had known Me, you had also known My Father.”