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John 8 📜 📕 ↷
Woman Caught in Adultery Told to Sin No More
1 AND JESUS went into the Mount-olivet:📜💬📚
2 and early in the morning again he came into the temple, and the people came to him, and sitting he taught them.📜💬📚
3 And the Scribes and Pharisees bring a woman taken in adultery; and they did set her in the midst,📜💬📚
4 And said to him: Master, this woman was even now taken in adultery.📜💬📚
5 And in the law, Moyses commanded us to stone such. What sayest thou therefore?📜💬📚
6 And this they said tempting him, that they might accuse him. But JESUS bowing himself down, with his finger wrote in the earth.📜💬📚
7 When they therefore continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said to them: He that is without sin of you, let him first throw the stone at her.📜💬📚
8 And again bowing himself, he wrote in the earth.📜💬📚
9 And they hearing, went out one by one, beginning at the seniors: and JESUS alone remained, and the woman standing in the midst.📜💬📚
10 And JESUS lifting up himself, said to her: Woman, where are they that accused thee? Hath no man condemned thee?📜💬📚
11 Who said: No man, Lord. And JESUS said: Neither will I condemn thee. Go, and now sin no more.📜💬📚
Jesus the Light of the World
12 Again therefore JESUS spake to them, saying: I am the light of the world: he that followeth me, walketh not in darkness, but shall have the light of life.📜💬📚
13 The Pharisees therefore said to him: Thou givest testimony of thy self; thy testimony is not true.📜💬📚
14 JESUS answered, and said to them: Although I do give testimony of my self, my testimony is true: because I know whence I came, & whither I go: but you know not whence I come, or whither I go.📜💬📚
15 You judge according to the flesh: I do not judge any man.📜💬📚
16 And if I do judge, my judgement is true: because I am not alone, but I and he that sent me, the Father.📜💬📚
17 And in your law it is written, that the testimony of two men is true.📜💬📚
18 I am he that give testimony of my self: and he that sent me, the Father, giveth testimony of me.📜💬📚
19 They said therefore to him: Where is thy Father? JESUS answered, Neither me do you know, nor my Father. If you did know me, perhaps you might know my Father also.📜💬📚
20 These words JESUS spake in the Treasury, teaching in the temple, and no man apprehended him, because his hour was not yet come.📜💬📚
21 Again therefore JESUS said to them: I go, and you shall seek me, and shall die in your sin. Whither I go, you can not come.📜💬📚
22 The Jews therefore said: Why, will he kill himself, because he saith: Whither I go, you can not come?📜💬📚
23 And he said to them: You are from beneath, I am from above. You are of this world, I am not of this world.📜💬📚
24 Therefore I said to you that you shall die in your sins. For if you believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sin.📜💬📚
25 They said therefore to him: Who art thou? JESUS said to them: The Beginning who also speak to you.📜💬📚
26 Many things I have to speak and judge of you. But he that sent me, is true: and what I have heard of him, these things I speak in the world.📜💬📚
27 And they knew not that he said to them that his Father was God.📜💬📚
28 JESUS therefore said to them: When you shall have exalted the Son of man, then you shall know that I am he, and of my self I do nothing, but as the Father hath taught me, these things I speak:📜💬📚
29 and he that sent me, is with me: and he hath not left me alone, because the things that please him I do always.📜💬📚
Truth Will Set You Free
30 When he spake these things, many believed in him.📜💬📚
31 JESUS therefore said to them that believed him, the Jews: If you abide in my word, you shall be my Disciples indeed.📜💬📚
32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.📜💬📚
33 They answered him: We are the seed of Abraham, and we never served any man: how sayest thou, You shall be free?📜💬📚
34 JESUS answered them: Amen, amen I say to you, that every one which committeth sin, is the servant of sin.📜💬📚
35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: the son abideth for ever.📜💬📚
36 If therefore the Son make you free, you shall be free indeed.📜💬📚
37 I know that you are the children of Abraham: but you seek to kill me, because my word taketh not in you.📜💬📚
38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do the things that you have seen with your father.📜💬📚
39 They answered, and said to him: Our father is Abraham. JESUS saith to them: If you be the children of Abraham, do the works of Abraham.📜💬📚
40 But now, you seek to kill me, a man that have spoken the truth to you, which I have heard of God. This did not Abraham.📜💬📚
41 You do the works of your father. They said therefore to him: We were not born of fornication. We have one Father, God.📜💬📚
42 JESUS therefore said to them: If God were your Father, verily you would love me. For from God I proceeded, and came: for I came not of my self, but he sent me:📜💬📚
43 Why do you not know my speech? Because you can not hear my word.📜💬📚
44 You are of your father the devil, & the desires of your father you will do. He was a man-killer from the beginning, & he stood not in the verity; because verity is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own, because he is a liar, & the father thereof.📜💬📚
45 But because I say the verity, you believe me not.📜💬📚
46 Which of you shall argue me of sin? If I say the verity, why do you not believe me?📜💬📚
47 He that is of God, heareth the words of God. Therefore you hear not, because you are not of God.📜💬📚
Before Abraham Was Born, I Am
48 The Jews therefore answered, and said to him: Do not we say well that thou art a Samaritane, and hast a devil?📜💬📚
49 JESUS answered: I have no devil: but I do honour my Father, and you have dishonoured me.📜💬📚
50 but I seek not mine own glory. There is that seeketh and judgeth.📜💬📚
51 Amen, amen I say to you: If any man keep my word, he shall not see death for ever.📜💬📚
52 The Jews therefore said: Now we have known that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the Prophets; and thou sayest: If any man keep my word, he shall not taste death for ever.📜💬📚
53 Why, art thou greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? and the Prophets are dead. Whom doest thou make thy self?📜💬📚
54 JESUS answered: If I do glorify my self, my glory is nothing. It is my Father that glorifieth me, whom you say that he is your God.📜💬📚
55 And you have not known him, but I know him. And if I shall say that I know him not, I shall be like to you, a liar. But I do know him, and do keep his word.📜💬📚
56 Abraham your father rejoiced that he might see my day: and he saw, and was glad.📜💬📚
57 The Jews therefore said to him: Thou hast not yet fifty years and hast thou seen Abraham?📜💬📚
58 JESUS said to them: Amen, amen I say to you, before that Abraham was made, I am.📜💬📚
59 They took stones therefore to cast at him. But JESUS hid himself, and went out of the temple.📜💬📚
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