8 ¹ (7:53) AND THEY WENT each to his home, (8:1) and Jesus to the Mount of Olives. 8 ² At daybreak he appeared again in the temple, and all the people gathered round him. He had taken his seat and was engaged in teaching them 8 ³ when the doctors of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught committing adultery. 8 ⁴ Making her stand out in the middle they said to him, 'Master, this woman was caught in the very act of adultery. 8 ⁵ In the Law Moses has laid down that such women are to be stoned. What do you say about it?' 8 ⁶ They put the question as a test, hoping to frame a charge against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. 8 ⁷ When they continued to press their question he sat up straight and said, 'That one of you who is faultless shall throw the first stone.' 8 ⁸ Then once again he bent down and wrote on the ground. 8 ⁹ When they heard what he said, one by one they went away, Some witness insert: convicted by their conscience. the eldest first; and Jesus was left alone, with the woman still standing there. 8 ¹⁰ Jesus again sat up and Some witnesses insert: seeing no one but the woman. said to the woman, 'Where are they? Has no one condemned you?' 8 ¹¹ 'No one, sir', she said. Jesus replied, 'No more do I. You may go; do not sin again.'

This passage, which in the most widely received editions of the New Testament is printed in the text of John, 7.53-8.1l, has no fixed place in our ancient manuscripts. Some of them do not contain it at all. Some place it after Luke 21.38, others after John 7.36, or 7.52, or 21.24.

8 ¹² ONCE AGAIN JESUS addressed the people: 'I am the light of the world. No follower of mine shall wander in the dark; he shall have the light of life.' 8 ¹³ The Pharisees said to him, 'You are witness in your own cause; your testimony is not valid.' 8 ¹⁴ Jesus replied, 'My testimony is valid, even though I do bear witness about myself; because I know where I come from, and where I am going. You do not know either where I come from or where I am going. 8 ¹⁵ You judge by worldly standards. I pass judgement on no man, 8 ¹⁶ but if I do judge, my judgement is valid because it is not I alone who judge, but I and he who sent me. 8 ¹⁷ In your own law it is written that the testimony of two witnesses is valid. 8 ¹⁸ Here am I, a witness in my own cause, and my other witness is the Father who sent me.' They asked, 8 ¹⁹ 'Where is your father?' Jesus replied, 'You know neither me nor my Father; if you knew me you would know my Father as well.'
8 ²⁰ These words were spoken by Jesus in the treasury as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.