Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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The Woman Caught in Adultery
1 [Then everyone went home, but
Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
2 Early the next morning he
went back to the Temple. All the
people gathered around him, and he
sat down and began to teach them.
3 The teachers of the Law and the
Pharisees brought in a woman who
had been caught committing adultery,
and they made her stand before
them all.
4 “Teacher,” they said to
Jesus, “this woman was caught in
the very act of committing adultery.
5 In our Law Moses commanded that
such a woman must be stoned to
death. Now, what do you say?” note
6 They said this to trap Jesus, so that
they could accuse him. But he bent
over and wrote on the ground with
his finger.
7 As they stood there asking
him questions, he straightened
up and said to them, “Whichever
one of you has committed no sin
may throw the first stone at her.” note
8 Then he bent over again and wrote
on the ground.
9 When they heard
this, they all left, one by one, the
older ones first. Jesus was left alone,
with the woman still standing there.
10 He straightened up and said to her,
“Where are they? Is there no one left
to condemn you?”
11 “No one, sir,” she answered.
11 “Well, then,” Jesus said, “I do not
condemn you either. Go, but do not
sin again.”] note
Jesus the Light of the World
12 Jesus spoke to the Pharisees
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again. “I am the light of the world,”
he said. “Whoever follows me will
have the light of life and will never
walk in darkness.” note
13 The Pharisees said to him, “Now
you are testifying on your own behalf;
what you say proves nothing.” note
14 “No,” Jesus answered, “even
though I do testify on my own behalf,
what I say is true, because I
know where I came from and where
I am going. You do not know where
I came from or where I am going.
15 You make judgments in a purely
human way; I pass judgment on no
one.
16 But if I were to do so, my
judgment would be true, because I
am not alone in this; the Father who
sent me is with me.
17 It is written in
your Law that when two witnesses
agree, what they say is true.
18 I testify
on my own behalf, and the Father
who sent me also testifies on
my behalf.”
19 “Where is your father?” they
asked him.
19 “You know neither me nor my Father,”
Jesus answered. “If you knew
me, you would know my Father
also.”
20 Jesus said all this as he taught in
the Temple, in the room where the
offering boxes were placed. And no
one arrested him, because his hour
had not come.
You Cannot Go Where I Am Going
21 Again Jesus said to them, “I will
go away; you will look for me, but
you will die in your sins. You cannot
go where I am going.”
22 So the Jewish authorities said,
“He says that we cannot go where
he is going. Does this mean that he
will kill himself?”
23 Jesus answered, “You belong to
this world here below, but I come
from above. You are from this
world, but I am not from this world.
24 That is why I told you that you will
die in your sins. And you will die in
your sins if you do not believe that ‘I
Am Who I Am’.”
25 “Who are you?” they asked him.
25 Jesus answered, “What I have told
you from the very beginning. note
26 I
have much to say about you, much
to condemn you for. The one who
sent me, however, is truthful, and I
tell the world only what I have heard
from him.”
27 They did not understand that
Jesus was talking to them about the
Father.
28 So he said to them, “When
you lift up the Son of Man, you will
know that ‘I Am Who I Am’; then
you will know that I do nothing on
my own authority, but I say only
what the Father has instructed me to
say.
29 And he who sent me is with
me; he has not left me alone, because
I always do what pleases
him.”
30 Many who heard Jesus say these
things believed in him.
Free Men and Slaves
31 So Jesus said to those who believed
in him, “If you obey my teaching,
you are really my disciples;
32 you will know the truth, and the
truth will set you free.” note
33 “We are the descendants of
Abraham,” they answered, “and we
have never been anybody's slaves.
What do you mean, then, by saying,
‘You will be free’?” note
34 Jesus said to them, “I am telling
you the truth: everyone who sins is a
slave of sin.
35 A slave does not belong
to a family permanently, but a
son belongs there forever.
36 If the
Son sets you free, then you will be
really free.
37 I know you are Abraham's
descendants. Yet you are trying
to kill me, because you will not
accept my teaching.
38 I talk about
what my Father has shown me, but
you do what your father has told
you.”
39 They answered him, “Our father
is Abraham.”
39 “If you really were Abraham's
children,” Jesus replied, “you would
do note the same things that he did.
40 All
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I have ever done is to tell you the
truth I heard from God, yet you are
trying to kill me. Abraham did nothing
like this!
41 You are doing what
your father did.”
41 “God himself is the only Father
we have,” they answered, “and we
are his true sons.”
42 Jesus said to them, “If God
really were your Father, you would
love me, because I came from God
and now I am here. I did not come
on my own authority, but he sent
me.
43 Why do you not understand
what I say? It is because you cannot
bear to listen to my message.
44 You
are the children of your father, the
Devil, and you want to follow your
father's desires. From the very beginning
he was a murderer and has
never been on the side of truth, because
there is no truth in him. When
he tells a lie, he is only doing what is
natural to him, because he is a liar
and the father of all lies. note
45 But I tell
the truth, and that is why you do not
believe me.
46 Which one of you can
prove that I am guilty of sin? If I tell
the truth, then why do you not believe
me?
47 He who comes from God
listens to God's words. You, however,
are not from God, and that is
why you will not listen.”
Jesus and Abraham
48 They asked Jesus, “Were we not
right in saying that you are a Samaritan
and have a demon in you?”
49 “I have no demon,” Jesus answered.
“I honor my Father, but you
dishonor me.
50 I am not seeking
honor for myself. But there is one
who is seeking it and who judges in
my favor.
51 I am telling you the
truth: whoever obeys my teaching
will never die.”
52 They said to him, “Now we
know for sure that you have a demon!
Abraham died, and the prophets
died, yet you say that whoever
obeys your teaching will never die.
53 Our father Abraham died; you do
not claim to be greater than Abraham,
do you? And the prophets also
died. Who do you think you are?”
54 Jesus answered, “If I were to
honor myself, that honor would be
worth nothing. The one who honors
me is my Father—the very one you
say is your God.
55 You have never
known him, but I know him. If I
were to say that I do not know him, I
would be a liar like you. But I do
know him, and I obey his word.
56 Your father Abraham rejoiced that
he was to see the time of my coming;
he saw it and was glad.”
57 They said to him, “You are not
even fifty years old—and you have
seen Abraham?” note
58 “I am telling you the truth,”
Jesus replied. “Before Abraham was
born, ‘I Am’.”
59 Then they picked up stones to
throw at him, but Jesus hid himself
and left the Temple.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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