John 8

¹²Therefore Jesus again spoke to them, saying: I am the light of the world. The one following me will certainly not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.

¹³Therefore the Pharisees said to him: You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.

¹⁴Jesus answered and said to them: Even if I bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going; but you people do not know where I come from or where I am going.

¹⁵You judge according to the flesh; I am not judging anyone.

¹⁶And if I do judge, however, my judgment is genuine, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me.

¹⁷And in your own law it has been written that the testimony of two men is true.

¹⁸I am the one bearing witness about myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me.

¹⁹Therefore they were saying to 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 also.

²⁰These words he spoke in the treasury, teaching in the temple; and no one seized him, for his hour had not yet come.

²¹Therefore he said again to them: I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sin; where I am going you are not able to come.

²²Therefore the Jews were saying: Surely he will not kill himself, will he, because he says: Where I am going you are not able to come?

²³And he was saying to them: You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.

²⁴I 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.

²⁶I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you; but the one who sent me is true, and what I have heard from him, these things I speak to the world.

²⁷They did not understand that he was speaking to them about the Father.

²⁸Jesus therefore said to them: When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and from myself I do nothing, but just as the Father taught me, these things I speak.

²⁹And the one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, the Father, because I always do the things pleasing to him.

³⁰As he was speaking these things, many believed in him.

³¹Jesus therefore was saying to those Jews who had believed in him: If you remain in my word, 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 offspring and have never been enslaved to anyone; how do you say, You will become free?

³⁴Jesus answered them: Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave of sin.

³⁵Now the slave does not remain in the household forever; the son remains forever.

³⁶If therefore the Son sets you free, you will be truly free.

³⁷I know that you are Abraham's offspring; but you are seeking to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.

³⁹They answered and said to him: Our father is Abraham. Jesus says to them: If you are Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.

⁴⁰But now you are seeking to kill me, a man who has spoken the truth to you which I heard from God; this Abraham did not do.

⁴¹You are doing the works of your father. They said therefore to him: We were not born of sexual immorality; we have one Father, God.

⁴²Jesus therefore said to them: If God were your Father, you would love me; for I came from God and I am here. For I have not come on my own authority, but he sent me.

⁴³Why do you not understand my speech? Because you cannot hear my word.

⁴⁴You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks the lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of it.

⁴⁵But because I speak the truth, you do not believe me.

⁴⁶Which of you convicts me of sin? But if I speak the truth, why do you not believe me?

⁴⁷Whoever is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear, because you are not of God.

⁴⁸The Jews therefore answered and said to him: Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?

⁴⁹Jesus answered: I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

⁵⁰Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is one who seeks it and judges.

⁵¹Truly, truly, I say to you: if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death forever.

⁵²The Jews said to him: Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets, and you say: If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death forever.

⁵³Surely you are not greater than our father Abraham, who died, are you? And the prophets died too. Who do you make yourself out to be?

⁵⁴Jesus answered: If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is your God,

⁵⁵And you have not known him; but I know him. If I were to say I do not know him, I would be a liar like you; but I know him and I keep his word.

⁵⁶Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and he saw it and rejoiced.

⁵⁷The Jews therefore said to him: You are not yet fifty years old, and you have seen Abraham?

⁵⁸Jesus said to them: Truly, truly, I say to you: before Abraham was, I am.

⁵⁹So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.