MODERN LITERAL VERSION

8:1 however Jesus went-onward to the Mountain of Olives.

8:2 And at daybreak, he came again into the temple and all the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them.
8:3 And the scribes and the Pharisees lead a woman having been overtaken in adultery, and having stood her in the middle of them,
8:4 they say to him, testing him, Teacher, this woman was overtaken in the very-act of committing adultery.
8:5 Now Moses commanded us in the law to stone such people. Then* what do you say of her?
8:6 And they say this, testing him, that* they may have something to accuse him.
But Jesus stooped downward and with his finger wrote in the soil and made-like nothing was happening.
8:7 But as they remained, asking him, he stood-erect and said to them, He who is without sin among you*, let him cast a stone at her first.
8:8 And again he stooped downward and with his finger wrote in the soil.
8:9 And when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, they went out one by one, beginning from the elder ones to the last and Jesus and the woman was left alone, in his midst.
8:10 And Jesus stood-erect and said to her, Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?

8:11 And she said, No one, Lord.
And Jesus said, Neither do I judge you. Go-onward. Sin no longer from hereafter.

8:12 Therefore, again Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world. He who is following me may never* walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.

8:13 Therefore the Pharisees said to him, You are testifying concerning yourself; your testimony is not true.

8:14 Jesus answered and said to them, Even if I testify concerning myself, my testimony is true, because I know from where I come and where I am going, but you* do not know from where I come or where I am going.
8:15 You* judge according to the flesh; I judge no one according to the flesh.
8:16 And yet if I judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me.
8:17 And in your* law it has been written, that the testimony of two men is true. {Deu 19:15}
8:18 I am he who is testifying concerning myself and the Father who sent me is testifying concerning me.

8:19 Therefore they said to him, Where is your Father?
Jesus answered, You* know neither me, nor my Father; if you* knew me, you* would also know my Father.
8:20 (Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he was teaching in the temple and no one arrested him, because his hour had not come yet.)

8:21 Therefore Jesus said again to them, I go away and you* will seek me and will die in your* sin; where I go, you* cannot come.

8:22 Therefore the Jews said, Will he kill himself, because he says, Where I go, you* cannot come?

8:23 And he said to them, You* are from below; I am from above. You* are from this world; I am not from this world.
8:24 Therefore I said to you*, that you* will die in your* sins; for* if you* do not believe that I am he, you* will die in your* sins.

8:25 Therefore they said to him, Who are you?
And Jesus said to them, Even what I have also spoken to you* from the beginning.
8:26 I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you*, but he who sent me is true, and the things which I heard from him, I speak these to the world.
8:27 (They did not know that he spoke concerning the Father to them.)
8:28 Therefore Jesus said to them, Whenever you* have exalted the Son of Man, then you* will know that I am he and that I am doing nothing from myself, but as my Father taught me, I speak these things.
8:29 And he who sent me is with me; the Father has not left me alone, because I am always doing those things pleasing to him.
8:30 As he was speaking these things, many believed in him.

8:31 Therefore Jesus said to those Jews who had believed him, If you* abide in my word, then you* truly are my disciples;
8:32 and you* will know the truth and the truth will make you* free.
8:33 They answered him, We are Abraham's seed and have been enslaved to no one at anytime. How do you say, You* will become free?

8:34 Jesus answered them, Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you*, Everyone who practices sin is the bondservant of sin.
8:35 And the bondservant does not abide in the house forever; the son abides forever.
8:36 Therefore, if the Son makes you* free, you* will really be free.
8:37 I know that you* are Abraham's seed; yet you* are seeking to kill me, because my word is not making room in you*.
8:38 I speak the things which I have seen with my Father and therefore you* are practicing what you* have seen with your* father.

8:39 They answered and said to him, Our father is Abraham.
Jesus says to them, If you* were Abraham's children, you* would do the works of Abraham.
8:40 But now you* are seeking to kill me, a man who has spoken the truth to you*, which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.
8:41 You* are practicing the works of your* father.
Therefore they said to him, We have not been born from fornication; we have one Father– God.

8:42 Therefore Jesus said to them, If God was your* Father, you* would love* me; for* I came out and have come from God; for* neither have I come from myself, but from he who sent me.
8:43 Why do you* not know my speech? Is it because you* are not able to hear my word?
8:44 You* are from your * father, the Devil, and it is your* will to do the lusts of your* father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own, because he is a liar and the father of it.
8:45 But because I speak the truth, you* do not believe me.
8:46 Which out of you* convicts me concerning sin? But if I speak the truth, why do you* not believe me?
8:47 He who is from God hears the declarations of God , but because of this, you* do not hear them, because you* are not from God.

8:48 Therefore the Jews answered and said to him, Do we not say well that you are a Samaritan and you have a demon?

8:49 Jesus answered, I do not have a demon, but I am honoring my Father and you* are dishonoring me.
8:50 But I am not seeking my own glory. There is one who is seeking and is judging.
8:51 Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you*, If anyone keeps my word, he may never* view his death.

8:52 The Jews said to him, Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died and the prophets, and you say, If anyone keeps my word, he may never* taste of death.
8:53 You are not greater than our father Abraham, who died, are you? And the prophets died; whom are you making* yourself out to be?

8:54 Jesus answered, If I am glorifying myself, my glory is nothing; it is my Father who is glorifying me; of whom you* say, that he is our God.
8:55 And you* have not known him, but I know him, and if I say, I do not know him, I will be similar to you*, a liar, but I know him and I am keeping his word.
8:56 Your* father Abraham was glad that* he might see my day, and he saw it and rejoiced .

8:57 Therefore the Jews said to him, You are not yet fifty years old and you have seen Abraham?

8:58 Jesus said to them, Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you*, Before Abraham was born, I am.
8:59 Therefore, they took up stones that* they might cast them at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple, going through the middle of them and so passed on by.