007:052 They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see
that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.{See Isaiah 9:1
and Matthew 4:13-16.}"
007:053 Everyone went to his own house,
008:001 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
008:002 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.
008:003 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery.
Having set her in the midst,
008:004 they told him, "Teacher, we found this woman in adultery,
in the very act.
008:005 Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such.{Leviticus 20:10;
Deuteronomy 22:22} What then do you say about her?"
008:006 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.
008:007 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."
008:008 Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.
008:009 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.
008:010 Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, "Woman, where are
your accusers? Did no one condemn you?"
008:011 She said, "No one, Lord." Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you.
Go your way. From now on, sin no more."
008:012 Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light
of the world.{Isaiah 60:1} He who follows me will not walk
in the darkness, but will have the light of life."
008:013 The Pharisees therefore said to him, "You testify about yourself.
Your testimony is not valid."
008:014 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.
008:015 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.
008:016 Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone,
but I am with the Father who sent me.
008:017 It's also written in your law that the testimony of two people
is valid.{Deuteronomy 17:6; 19:15}
008:018 I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent
me testifies about me."
008:019 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."
008:020 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.
008:021 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."
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