8 ¹ but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 8 ² Early in the morning he came again to the temple; all the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. 8 ³ The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst 8 ⁴ they said to him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. 8 ⁵ Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such. What do you say about her?" 8 ⁶ This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. 8 ⁷ And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her." 8 ⁸ And once more he bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. 8 ⁹ But when they heard it, they went away, one by one, beginning with the eldest, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. 8 ¹⁰ Jesus looked up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" 8 ¹¹ She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you; go, and do not sin again."

8 ¹² Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." 8 ¹³ The Pharisees then said to him, "You are bearing witness to yourself; your testimony is not true." 8 ¹⁴ Jesus answered, "Even if I do bear witness to myself, my testimony is true, for I know whence I have come and whither I am going, but you do not know whence I come or whither I am going. 8 ¹⁵ You judge according to the flesh, I judge no one. 8 ¹⁶ Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone that judge, but I and he who sent me. 8 ¹⁷ In your law it is written that the testimony of two men is true; 8 ¹⁸ I bear witness to myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness to me." 8 ¹⁹ They said to him therefore, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father; if you knew me, you would know my Father also." 8 ²⁰ These words he spoke in the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.