John 8:1-39 ▼

1 Iesus wente vnto mount Oliuete,

2 and early in the mornynge came he agayne in to the temple, and all the people came vnto him. And he sat downe, and taught them.

3 And ye scrybes and Pharises brought vnto him a woman taken in aduoutrye, and set her there openly,

4 and sayde vnto him: Master, this woman was taken in aduoutrye, eue as the dede was adoynge.

5 Moses in the lawe commaunded vs to stone soch. What sayest thou?

6 This they sayde, to tempte him, that they might haue wherof to accuse him. But Iesus stouped downe, and wrote with his fynger vpo the grounde.

7 Now whyle they contynued axynge him, he lift him self vp, and sayde vnto them: He that is amonge you without synne, let him cast the first stone at her.

8 And he stouped downe agayne, and wrote vpon the grounde.

9 But whan they herde that, they wente out, one after another: the eldest first, and left Iesus alone, and the woman stondinge before him.

10 Iesus lift himself vp, and whan be sawe no man but the woman, he sayde vnto her: Woman, where are thine accusers? Hath noman condempned the?

11 She sayde: LORDE, no man. Iesus sayde: Nether do I codempne the, Go thy waye, and synne nomore.

12 Then spake Iesus agayne vnto them, and sayde: I am the light of the worlde. He that foloweth me, shal not walke in darknesse, but shal haue the light of life.

13 Then sayde the Pharises vnto him: Thou bearest recorde of thy self, thy recorde is not true.

14 Iesus answered, and sayde vnto them: Though I beare recorde of my self, yet my recorde is true: for I knowe whence I came, and whither I go: but ye can not tell whence I come, and whither I go.

15 Ye iudge after the flesh, I iudge no man:

16 but yf I iudge, my iudgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the father that hath sent me.

17 It is wrytten also in youre lawe, that the testimony of two men is true.

18 I am one that beare wytnesse of my self: And the father that sent me, beareth wytnes of me also.

19 Then sayde they vnto him: Where is thy father? Iesus answered: Ye nether knowe me ner yet my father.Yf ye knewe me, ye shulde knowe my father also.

20 These wordes spake Iesus vpon the Godschest, as he taught in the teple. And noman toke him, for his houre was not yet come.

21 Then sayde Iesus agayne vnto them: I go my waye, and ye shal seke me, and shal dye in youre synnes: whither I go, thither can not ye come.

22 Then sayde ye Iewes: Wyl he kyll him self then, that he sayeth: whither I go, thither can not ye come?

23 And he sayde vnto them: Ye are from beneth, I am from aboue: Ye are of this worlde, I am not of this worlde.

24 Therfore haue I sayde vnto you, that ye shal dye in youre synnes. For yf ye beleue not that I am he, ye shal dye in youre synnes.

25 Then sayde they vnto him: Who art thou then? And Iesus sayde vnto the: Eue the very same thinge that I saye vnto you.

26 I haue many thinges to saye and to iudge of you. But he that sent me, is true: and loke what I haue herde of him,that speake I before the worlde,

27 Howbeit they vnderstode not, that he spake of the father.

28 Then sayde Iesus vnto them: Whan ye haue lift vp an hye the sonne of man, then shal ye knowe that I am he, and that I do nothinge of my self: but as my father hath taught me, euen so I speake.

29 And he that sent me, is with me. The father leaueth me not alone, for I do alwaie that pleaseth him.

30 Whan he thus spake, many beleued on him. Then sayde Iesus vnto the Iewes, that beleued on him:

31 Yf ye contynue in my worde, then are ye my very disciples,

32 and ye shall knowe the trueth, and the trueth shal make you fre.

33 Then answered they him: We are Abrahams sede, we were neuer bonde to eny man, how sayest thou then: Ye shal be fre?

34 Iesus answered them, and sayde: Verely verely I saye vnto you: Who so euer doth synne,

35 is the seruaunt of synne: As for the seruaunt, he abydeth not in the house for euer,

36 but the sonne abydeth euer. Yf the sonne therfore make you fre, then are ye fre in dede.

37 I knowe that ye are Abrahams sede, but ye seke to kyll me. For my worde taketh not amonge you.

38 I speake that I haue sene of my father, & ye do that ye haue sene of youre father.

39 They answered, and sayde vnto him: Abraham is oure father. Iesus sayde vnto them: Yf ye were Abrahams children, ye wolde do the dedes of Abraham.