\subsection{\John 8} \subsubsection{The Woman Caught in Adultery} \lettrine[lraise=0]{B}{ut} But \Iesous proceeded to the Mount of Olives. \VS{2} Now at dawn he came again to the temple, and all the people were coming to him, and having sat he was teaching them. \VS{3} Now the scribes and the Pharisees bring [a] woman caught in adultery, and having stood her in the midst \VS{4} they say to him: Teacher, this woman was caught in the act being adulterous. \VS{5} Now \Moses commanded in the law of \Moses to be stoning such. So, what do you say? \VS{6} But they were saying this testing him, that they have [something] to accuse of him. But \Iesous having bent down was writing in the earth\fnGe{}. \VS{7} So as they persisted asking [him], he stood erect and said: Let\fnImperative{} the unsinful [one] among you cast upon her [the] first stone. \VS{8} And again having bent he was writing in the earth\fnGe{}. \VS{9} Now those having heard were going out one by one beginning from the eldest, and he was left alone and the woman being in the midst. \VS{10} So \Iesous having stood erect said to her: Ma'am\fnWoman{}, where are they? Does no one condemn you? \VS{11} The woman said: No one, Lord. So \Iesous said to her: Neither do I condemn you. Be going, from now [on] be sinning no more.% \footnote {omit vs. 7:53--8:11: \papyrus{66,75}\hesychian{}\sinaiticus{}WB many; include 7:53--8:11: \koine{}D \vulgate{} most} \subsubsection{\Iesous as the Light of the World} \VS{12} So, again \Iesous spoke to them saying: I am the light of the world. The [one] following me shall \negd{not} walk in darkness, but will have the light of \zoe{}-life\fnZoe{}. \VS{13} So the Pharisees said to him: You witness concerning yourself, your witness is not true. \VS{14} \Iesous answered and said to them: And if I witness concerning myself, my witness is true, because I know whence I came and whither I depart. But you do not know whence I come or whither I depart. \VS{15} You judge according to the flesh, but I judge \negd{no one}. \VS{16} But if I judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but [it is] I and the father having sent me. \VS{17} And in your law it is written that the witness of two people\fnAnthropos{} is true. \VS{18} I am the [one] witnessing concerning myself, and the father having sent me witnesses concerning me. \VS{19} So they were saying to him, Where is your father? \Iesous answered: You know neither me nor my father. If you had known me, you would have also known my father. \VS{20} These words he spoke in the treasury teaching in the temple. And no one arrested him, because his hour was not yet come. \subsubsection{Whence \Iesous Came and Whither He Goes} \VS{21} So he said to them again: I depart and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins; where I depart you are not able to come. \VS{22} So the Jews were saying: Will he not kill himself\fnGrammarIndicatesNo{}, because he says: Where I depart you also are not able to come? \VS{23} And he was saying to them: You are of the below, I am of the above. You are of this world\fnKosmos{}, I am not of this world. \VS{24} So I said to you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not trust\fnPistisJohn{} that I am [he], you will die in your sins. \VS{25} So they were saying to him, Who are you? \Iesous said to them: What I told you from the beginning. \VS{26} I have many [things] concerning you to be saying and to be judging. But the [one] having sent me is true, and I, what I heard from him, these [things] I speak to the world. \VS{27} They did not know that he was speaking [about] the father. \VS{28} So \Iesous said: When you have lifted up\fnUpsao{} the Son of Humanity\fnAnthropos{}, then you will know that I am [he], and [that] from myself I do nothing, but just as the father taught me, these [things] I speak. \VS{29} And the [one] having sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do the [things] pleasing to him. \VS{30} Speaking these [things], many trusted in him. \subsubsection{\Abraam's Children and the Devil's Children} \VS{31} So \Iesous was saying to the Jews having trusted in him: If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples. \VS{32} And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. \VS{33} They answered him: We are \Abraam's seed, and to no one have we ever been enslaved. How do you tell us that: You will become free? \VS{34} \Iesous answered them: Truly truly I say to you that everyone doing sin is [a] slave of sin. \VS{35} Now the slave does not dwell% \footnote{compare \myxref{\John}{14}{2} where ``dwelling-place'' is the noun form of the verb ``dwell'' here.} in the house[hold] to eternity, [but] the son abides to eternity, \VS{36} So if the son set you free, you will be free indeed. \VS{37} I know that you are \Abraam's seed, but you seek to kill me, because my word does not have room in you. \VS{38} What I have seen beside the father I speak, and therefore what you heard from your father you do. \VS{39} They answered and said to him: Our father is \Abraam. \Iesous says to them: If you are children of \Abraam, you would have done% \footnote{``\Abraam, you would have done'': \papyrus{75}\sinaiticus{}DW\koine{}; ``\Abraam, be doing'': \papyrus{66}B \vulgate{} } the works of \Abraam. \VS{40} But now you seek to kill me, [a] person\fnAnthropos{} who has spoken to you the truth, which I heard from God; this \Abraam did not do. \VS{41} You do the works [of your] father. They said to him: We were not born out of fornication, We have one father --- God. \VS{42} \Iesous said to them: If God were your father, you would have agape-loved me, for I have gone out from God and have come. For neither am I come from myself, but he sent me. \VS{43} Why do you not know my speech? Because you are not able to be hearing my word. \VS{44} You are from your father the devil% \fnDiabolos{} and you want to be doing the desires [of your] father. He was murderer from the beginning, and he has not stood in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks from his own [self], because he is [a] liar and the father [of them]. \VS{45} But because I tell you the truth, you do not trust me. \VS{46} Who among you convicts me of sin? If I say [the] truth, why do you not trust me? \VS{47} The [one] being from God hears the words of God; because of this you do not hear [me], because you are not from God. \VS{48} The Jews answered and said to him: Did we not well say that you are [a] \Samaritan\fn\Samaritan{} and you have [a] demon? \VS{49} \Iesous answered: I do not have [a] demon, but [rather] I honor my father, and you dishonor me. \VS{50} I do not seek my glory; there is the [one] seeking and judging. \VS{51} Truly truly I say to you, if anyone keep my word, he will \negd{not} see death to eternity. \VS{52} The Jews said to him: Now we have known that you have a demon. \Abraam died and the prophets, and you say: If you keep my word, you will \negd{not} taste death unto eternity? \VS{53} You aren't greater than our father \Abraam who died, [are you]?\fnGrammarIndicatesNo{} And the prophets died: whom do you make yourself? \VS{54} \Iesous answered: If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. The father is the [one] glorifying me, whom you [all]\fnYouPlural{} say that: He is our God. \VS{55} And you have not known him, but I know him. And if I say that I do not know him, I will be [a] liar like you; but I know him and I keep his word. \VS{56} \Abraam your father was glad that he saw my day, and he saw [it] and rejoiced. \VS{57} So the Jews said to him: You do not yet have fifty years, and you have seen \Abraam? \VS{58} \Iesous said to them: Truly truly I say to you: Before \Abraam came-to-be, I am. \VS{59} So they took stones that they throw [them] upon him, but \Iesous hid and went out of the temple.