007:050 Nicodemus interposed--he who had formerly gone to Jesus,
being himself one of them.
007:051 "Does our Law," he asked, "judge a man without first hearing
what he has to say and ascertaining what his conduct is?"
007:052 "Do you also come from Galilee?" they asked in reply.
"Search and see for yourself that no Prophet is
of Galilaean origin."
007:053 [So they went away to their several homes;
008:001 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
008:002 At break of day however He returned to the Temple, and there
the people came to Him in crowds. He seated Himself;
008:003 and was teaching them when the Scribes and the Pharisees brought
to Him a woman who had been found committing adultery.
They made her stand in the centre of the court, and they put
the case to Him.
008:004 "Rabbi," they said, "this woman has been found in the very act
of committing adultery.
008:005 Now, in the Law, Moses has ordered us to stone such women to death.
But what do you say?"
008:006 They asked this in order to put Him to the test,
so that they might have some charge to bring against Him.
But Jesus leant forward and began to write with His finger
on the ground.
008:007 When however they persisted with their question, He raised
His head and said to them, "Let the sinless man among you
be the first to throw a stone at her."
008:008 Then He leant forward again, and again began to write
on the ground.
008:009 They listened to Him, and then, beginning with the eldest,
took their departure, one by one, till all were gone.
And Jesus was left behind alone--and the woman in the centre
of the court.
008:010 Then, raising His head, Jesus said to her, "Where are they?
Has no one condemned you?"
008:011 "No one, Sir," she replied. "And *I* do not condemn you either,"
said Jesus; "go, and from this time do not sin any more."]
008:012 Once more Jesus addressed them. "I am the Light of the world,"
He said; "the man who follows me shall certainly not walk
in the dark, but shall have the light of Life."
008:013 "You are giving testimony about yourself," said the Pharisees;
"your testimony is not true."
008:014 "Even if I am giving testimony about myself," replied Jesus,
"my testimony is true; for I know where I came from and where I
am going, but you know neither of these two things.
008:015 You judge according to appearances: I am judging no one.
008:016 And even if I do judge, my judgement is just; for I am not alone,
but the Father who sent me is with me.
008:017 In your own Law, too, it is written that the testimony of two
men is true.
008:018 I am one giving testimony about myself, and the Father who sent
me gives testimony about me."
008:019 "Where is your Father?" they asked. "You know my Father
as little as you know me." He replied; "if you knew me,
you would know my Father also."
008:020 These sayings He uttered in the Treasury, while teaching
in the Temple; yet no one arrested Him, because His time
had not yet come.
008:021 Again He said to them, "I am going away. Then you will try
to find me, but you will die in your sins. Where I am going,
it is impossible for you to come."
008:022 The Jews began to ask one another, "Is he going to kill himself,
do you think, that he says, `Where I am going, it is impossible
for you to come'?"
008:023 "You," He continued, "are from below, I am from above:
you are of this present world, I am not of this present world.
008:024 That is why I told you that you will die in your sins;
for, unless you believe that I am He, that is what will happen."
008:025 "You--who are you?" they asked. "How is it that I am speaking
to you at all?" replied Jesus.
008:026 "Many things I have to speak and to judge concerning you.
But He who sent me is true, and the things which I have heard
from Him are those which I have come into the world to speak."
008:027 They did not perceive that He was speaking to them of the Father.
008:028 So Jesus added, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man,
then you will know that I am He. Of myself I do nothing;
but as the Father has taught me, so I speak.
008:029 And He who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone:
for I do always what is pleasing to Him."
008:030 As He thus spoke, many became believers in Him.
008:031 Jesus therefore said to those of the Jews who had now believed
in Him, "As for you, if you hold fast to my teaching,
then you are truly my disciples;