John 8:9-35

⁹When they heard this, they began to go out one by one, beginning with the older ones. Jesus was left alone with the woman still standing there.

¹⁰Straightening up, Jesus asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

¹¹She said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more.”

¹²Jesus spoke again to the people, saying, “I am the light of the world. Anyone who follows me won’t walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

¹³Then the Pharisees told Him, “You are testifying on your own behalf, so your testimony isn’t valid.”

¹⁴Jesus answered, “Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid because I know where I came from and where I am going, but you don’t know where I come from or where I am going.

¹⁵You judge by human standards, but I am not judging anyone.

¹⁶Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.

¹⁷It’s also written in your Law that the testimony of two men is valid.

¹⁸I am one who bears witness of myself, and my Father who sent me bears witness of me.”

¹⁹Then they asked Him, “Where is Your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you had known me, you would have known my Father, too.”

²⁰Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as He taught in the temple. Nobody laid hands on Him, for His time had not yet come.

²¹Jesus told them again, “I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you can’t come.”

²²Therefore the Jews were saying, “Surely He won’t kill Himself, will He, since He says, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come’?”

²³Jesus was saying to them, “You are from below. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

²⁴Therefore I told you that you will die in your sins, because if you don’t believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”

²⁵Then they asked Him, “Who are You?” Jesus told them, “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.

²⁶I have many things to say and judge about you, but He who sent me is true, and I speak to the world those things which I heard from Him.”

²⁷They didn’t realize that He had been speaking to them about the Father.

²⁸So, Jesus said, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on my own, but I speak these things as the Father taught me.

²⁹He who sent me is with me. He hasn’t left me alone, because I always do the things that are pleasing to Him.”

³⁰As Jesus spoke, many came to believe in Him.

³¹Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you continue in my words, you are truly my disciples,

³²and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

³³They answered Him, “We are Abraham’s descendants, and have never been slaves to anyone. How can you say that we’ll be set free?”

³⁴Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly, I tell you, whoever sins is a slave of sin.

³⁵A slave doesn’t remain in the house forever, but a son does belong forever.