1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

2 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.

3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought
a woman taken in adultery. Having set her
in the middle,

4 they told him, “Teacher, we found this
woman in adultery, in the very act.

5 Now in our law, Moses commanded us
to stone such women.* What then do you
say about her?”

6 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.

7 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.”

8 Again he stooped down and wrote on
the ground with his finger.

9 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.

10 Jesus, standing up, saw her and said,
“Woman, where are your accusers? Did no
one condemn you?”

11 She said, “No one, Lord.”
Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you.
Go your way. From now on, sin no more.Ӡ

12 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.”

13 The Pharisees therefore said to him,
“Youtestify about yourself. Your testimony
is not valid.”

14 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.

15 You judge according to the flesh. I
judge no one.

16 Even ifI do judge, my judgmentis true,
for I am not alone, but I am with the Father
who sent me.

17 It’s also written in your law that the
testimony of two people is valid.*

18 I am one who testifies about myself,
and the Father who sent me testifies
about me.”

19 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.”

20 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.

21 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.”

22 The Jews therefore said, “Will he kill
himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going,
you can’t come’?”

23 He said to them, “You are from beneath.
I am from above. You are of this
world. I am not of this world.

24 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.”

25 They said therefore to him, “Who are
you?” Jesus saidto them, “Just what I have been
saying to you from the beginning.

26 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.”

27 They didn’t understand that he spoke
to them about the Father.

28 Jesus therefore said to them, “When
you have lifted up the Sonof Man,thenyou
will know that I am he, and I do nothing of
myself, but as my Father taught me, I say
these things.

29 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.”