8:2 Early the next morning he returned to the temple courtyard. All the people went to him, so he sat down and began to teach them.
8:3 The experts in Moses’ Teachings and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught committing adultery. They made her stand in front of everyone
8:4 and asked Yeshua, “Teacher, we caught this woman in the act of adultery.
8:5 In his teachings, Moses ordered us to stone women like this to death. What do you say?”
8:6 They asked this to test him. They wanted to find a reason to bring charges against him. Yeshua bent down and used his finger to write on the ground.
8:7 When they persisted in asking him questions, he straightened up and said, “The person who is sinless should be the first to throw a stone at her.”
8:8 Then he bent down again and continued writing on the ground.
8:9 One by one, beginning with the older men, the experts in Moses’ Teachings and Pharisees left. Yeshua was left alone with the woman.
8:10 Then Yeshua straightened up and asked her, “Where did they go? Has anyone condemned you?”
8:11 The woman answered, “No one, sir.” Yeshua said, “I don’t condemn you either. Go! From now on don’t sin.”
8:12 Yeshua spoke to the Pharisees again. He said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will have a life filled with light and will never live in the dark.”
8:13 The Pharisees said to him, “You testify on your own behalf, so your testimony isn’t true.”
8:14 Yeshua replied to them, “Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is true because I know where I came from and where I’m going. However, you don’t know where I came from or where I’m going.
8:15 You judge the way humans do. I don’t judge anyone.
8:16 Even if I do judge, my judgment is valid because I don’t make it on my own. I make my judgment with the Father who sent me.
8:17 Your own teachings say that the testimony of two people is true.
8:18 I testify on my own behalf, and so does the Father who sent me.”
8:19 The Pharisees asked him, “Where is your father?” Yeshua replied, “You don’t know me or my Father. If you knew me, you would also know my Father.”
8:20 Yeshua spoke these words while he was teaching in the treasury area of the temple courtyard. No one arrested him, because his time had not yet come.
8:21 Yeshua spoke to the Pharisees again. He said, “I’m going away, and you’ll look for me. But you will die because of your sin. You can’t go where I’m going.”
8:22 Then the Jews asked, “Is he going to kill himself? Is that what he means when he says, ‘You can’t go where I’m going’?”
8:23 Yeshua said to them, “You’re from below. I’m from above. You’re from this world. I’m not from this world.
8:24 For this reason I told you that you’ll die because of your sins. If you don’t believe that I am the one, you’ll die because of your sins.”
8:25 The Jews asked him, “Who did you say you are?” Yeshua told them, “I am who I said I was from the beginning.
8:26 I have a lot I could say about you and a lot I could condemn you for. But the one who sent me is true. So I tell the world exactly what he has told me.”
8:27 (The Jews didn’t know that he was talking to them about the Father.)
8:28 So Yeshua told them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you’ll know that I am the one and that I can’t do anything on my own. Instead, I speak as the Father taught me.
8:29 Besides, the one who sent me is with me. He hasn’t left me by myself. I always do what pleases him.”
8:30 As Yeshua was saying this, many people believed in him.
8:31 So Yeshua said to those Jews who believed in him, “If you live by what I say, you are truly my disciples.
8:32 You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
8:33 They replied to Yeshua, “We are Abraham’s descendants, and we’ve never been anyone’s slaves. So how can you say that we will be set free?”
8:34 Yeshua answered them, “I can guarantee this truth: Whoever lives a sinful life is a slave to sin.
8:35 A slave doesn’t live in the home forever, but a son does.
8:36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be absolutely free.
8:37 I know that you’re Abraham’s descendants. However, you want to kill me because you don’t like what I’m saying.
8:38 What I’m saying is what I have seen in my Father’s presence. But you do what you’ve heard from your father.”
8:39 The Jews replied to Yeshua, “Abraham is our father.” Yeshua told them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do what Abraham did.
8:40 I am a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. But now you want to kill me. Abraham wouldn’t have done that.
8:41 You’re doing what your father does.” The Jews said to Yeshua, “We’re not illegitimate children. God is our only Father.”
8:42 Yeshua told them, “If God were your Father, you would love me. After all, I’m here, and I came from God. I didn’t come on my own. Instead, God sent me.
8:43 Why don’t you understand the language I use? Is it because you can’t understand the words I use?
8:44 You come from your father, the devil, and you desire to do what your father wants you to do. The devil was a murderer from the beginning. He has never been truthful. He doesn’t know what the truth is. Whenever he tells a lie, he’s doing what comes naturally to him. He’s a liar and the father of lies.
8:45 So you don’t believe me because I tell the truth.
8:46 Can any of you convict me of committing a sin? If I’m telling the truth, why don’t you believe me?
8:47 The person who belongs to God understands what God says. You don’t understand because you don’t belong to God.”
8:48 The Jews replied to Yeshua, “Aren’t we right when we say that you’re a Samaritan and that you’re possessed by a demon?”
8:49 Yeshua answered, “I’m not possessed. I honor my Father, but you dishonor me.
8:50 I don’t want my own glory. But there is someone who wants it, and he is the judge.
8:51 I can guarantee this truth: Whoever obeys what I say will never see death.”
8:52 The Jews told Yeshua, “Now we know that you’re possessed by a demon. Abraham died, and so did the prophets, but you say, ‘Whoever does what I say will never taste death.’
8:53 Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? The prophets have also died. Who do you think you are?”
8:54 Yeshua said, “If I bring glory to myself, my glory is nothing. My Father is the one who gives me glory, and you say that he is your God.
8:55 Yet, you haven’t known him. However, I know him. If I would say that I didn’t know him, I would be a liar like all of you. But I do know him, and I do what he says.
8:56 Your father Abraham was pleased to see that my day was coming. He saw it and was happy.”
8:57 The Jews said to Yeshua, “You’re not even fifty years old. How could you have seen Abraham?”
8:58 Yeshua told them, “I can guarantee this truth: Before Abraham was ever born, I am.”
8:59 Then some of the Jews picked up stones to throw at Yeshua. However, Yeshua was concealed, and he left the temple courtyard.
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