1 but Yeshua went to the Mount of Olives.
2 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.
3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle,
4 they told him, "Rabbi, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act.
5 Now in our Torah, Moses commanded us to stone such women. What then do you say about her?"
6 They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of.
7 But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them,
8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.
9 They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Yeshua was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.
10 Yeshua, standing up, saw her and said,
11 She said, "No one, Lord."
12 Again, therefore, Yeshua spoke to them, saying,
13 The Pharisees therefore said to him, "You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid."
14 Yeshua answered them,
15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.
16 Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.
17 It’s also written in your Torah that the testimony of two people is valid.
18 I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me."
19 They said therefore to him, "Where is your Father?"
20 Yeshua spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
21 Yeshua said therefore again to them,
22 The Judeans therefore said, "Will he kill himself, because he says,
23 He said to them,
24 I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am
25 They said therefore to him, "Who are you?"
26 I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world."
27 They didn’t understand that he spoke to them about the Father.
28 Yeshua therefore said to them,
29 He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him."
30 As he spoke these things, many believed in him.
31 Yeshua therefore said to those Judeans who had believed him,
32 You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."
33 They answered him, "We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say,
34 Yeshua answered them,
35 A bondservant doesn’t live in the house forever. A son remains forever.
36 If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
37 I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.
38 I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father."
39 They answered him, "Our father is Abraham."
40 But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this.
41 You do the works of your father."
42 Therefore Yeshua said to them,
43 Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.
44 You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.
45 But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me.
46 Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
47 He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God."
48 Then the Judeans answered him, "Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?"
49 Yeshua answered,
50 But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.
51 Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death."
52 Then the Judeans said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say,
53 Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?"
54 Yeshua answered,
55 You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word.
56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad."
57 The Judeans therefore said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?"
58 Yeshua said to them,
59 Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Yeshua was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.