John 7-8 (Darby Translation)

John 7

 ¹And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee, for he would not walk in Judaea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

 ²Now the tabernacles, the feast of the Jews, was near.

 ³His brethren therefore said to him, Remove hence and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see thy works which thou doest;

 ⁴for no one does anything in secret and himself seeks to be [known] in public. If thou doest these things, manifest thyself to the world:

 ⁵for neither did his brethren believe on him.

 ⁶Jesus therefore says to them, My time is not yet come, but your time is always ready.

 ⁷The world cannot hate you, but me it hates, because I bear witness concerning it that its works are evil.

 ⁸Ye, go ye up to this feast. I go not up to this feast, for *my* time is not yet fulfilled.

 ⁹Having said these things to them he abode in Galilee.

 ¹⁰But when his brethren had gone up, then he himself also went up to the feast, not openly, but as in secret.

 ¹¹The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?

 ¹²And there was much murmuring concerning him among the crowds. Some said, He is [a] good [man]; others said, No; but he deceives the crowd.

 ¹³However, no one spoke openly concerning him on account of [their] fear of the Jews.

 ¹⁴But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.

 ¹⁵The Jews therefore wondered, saying, How knows this [man] letters, having never learned?

 ¹⁶Jesus therefore answered them and said, My doctrine is not mine, but [that] of him that has sent me.

 ¹⁷If any one desire to practise his will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is of God, or [that] I speak from myself.

 ¹⁸He that speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but he that seeks the glory of him that has sent him, he is true, and unrighteousness is not in him.

 ¹⁹Has not Moses given you the law, and no one of you practises the law? Why do ye seek to kill me?

 ²⁰The crowd answered [and said], Thou hast a demon: who seeks to kill thee?

 ²¹Jesus answered and said to them, I have done one work, and ye all wonder.

 ²²Therefore Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and ye circumcise a man on sabbath.

 ²³If a man receives circumcision on sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be violated, are ye angry with me because I have made a man entirely sound on sabbath?

 ²⁴Judge not according to sight, but judge righteous judgment.

 ²⁵Some therefore of those of Jerusalem said, Is not this he whom they seek to kill?

 ²⁶and behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers then indeed recognised that this is the Christ?

 ²⁷But [as to] this [man] we know whence he is. Now [as to] the Christ, when he comes, no one knows whence he is.

 ²⁸Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, Ye both know me and ye know whence I am; and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye do not know.

 ²⁹I know him, because I am from him, and *he* has sent me.

 ³⁰They sought therefore to take him; and no one laid his hand upon him, because his hour had not yet come.

 ³¹But many of the crowd believed on him, and said, Will the Christ, when he comes, do more signs than those which this [man] has done?

 ³²The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things concerning him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers that they might take him.

 ³³Jesus therefore said, Yet a little while I am with you, and I go to him that has sent me.

 ³⁴Ye shall seek me and shall not find [me], and where I am ye cannot come.

 ³⁵The Jews therefore said to one another, Where is he about to go that we shall not find him? Is he about to go to the dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

 ³⁶What word is this which he said, Ye shall seek me and shall not find [me]; and where I am ye cannot come?

 ³⁷In the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried saying, If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink.

 ³⁸He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

 ³⁹But this he said concerning the Spirit, which they that believed on him were about to receive; for [the] Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

 ⁴⁰[Some] out of the crowd therefore, having heard this word, said, This is truly the prophet.

 ⁴¹Others said, This is the Christ. Others said, Does then the Christ come out of Galilee?

 ⁴²Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from the village of Bethlehem, where David was?

 ⁴³There was a division therefore in the crowd on account of him.

 ⁴⁴But some of them desired to take him, but no one laid hands upon him.

 ⁴⁵The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, Why have ye not brought him?

 ⁴⁶The officers answered, Never man spoke thus, as this man [speaks].

 ⁴⁷The Pharisees therefore answered them, Are ye also deceived?

 ⁴⁸Has any one of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees?

 ⁴⁹But this crowd, which does not know the law, are accursed.

 ⁵⁰Nicodemus says to them (being one of themselves),

 ⁵¹Does our law judge a man before it have first heard from himself, and know what he does?

 ⁵²They answered and said to him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search and look, that no prophet arises out of Galilee.

 ⁵³And every one went to his home.

John 8

 ¹But Jesus went to the mount of Olives.

 ²And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him; and he sat down and taught them.

 ³And the scribes and the Pharisees bring [to him] a woman taken in adultery, and having set her in the midst,

 ⁴they say to him, Teacher, this woman has been taken in the very act, committing adultery.

 ⁵Now in the law Moses has commanded us to stone such; thou therefore, what sayest thou?

 ⁶But this they said proving him, that they might have [something] to accuse him [of]. But Jesus, having stooped down, wrote with his finger on the ground.

 ⁷But when they continued asking him, he lifted himself up and said to them, Let him that is without sin among you first cast the stone at her.

 ⁸And again stooping down he wrote on the ground.

 ⁹But they, having heard [that], went out one by one beginning from the elder ones until the last; and Jesus was left alone and the woman standing there.

 ¹⁰And Jesus, lifting himself up and seeing no one but the woman, said to her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? Has no one condemned thee?

 ¹¹And she said, No one, sir. And Jesus said to her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

 ¹²Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world; he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

 ¹³The Pharisees therefore said to him, Thou bearest witness concerning thyself; thy witness is not true.

 ¹⁴Jesus answered and said to them, Even if I bear witness concerning myself, my witness is true, because I know whence I came and whither I go: but ye know not whence I come and whither I go.

 ¹⁵Ye judge according to the flesh, I judge no one.

 ¹⁶And if also I judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who has sent me.

 ¹⁷And in your law too it is written that the testimony of two men is true:

 ¹⁸I am [one] who bear witness concerning myself, and the Father who has sent me bears witness concerning me.

 ¹⁹They said to him therefore, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye know neither me nor my Father. If ye had known me, ye would have known also my Father.

 ²⁰These words spoke he in the treasury, teaching in the temple; and no one took him, for his hour was not yet come.

 ²¹He said therefore again to them, I go away, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sin; where I go ye cannot come.

 ²²The Jews therefore said, Will he kill himself, that he says, Where I go ye cannot come?

 ²³And he said to them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above. Ye are of this world; I am not of this world.

 ²⁴I said therefore to you, that ye shall die in your sins; for unless ye shall believe that I am [he], ye shall die in your sins.

 ²⁵They said therefore to him, Who art thou? [And] Jesus said to them, Altogether that which I also say to you.

 ²⁶I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but he that has sent me is true, and I, what I have heard from him, these things I say to the world.

 ²⁷They knew not that he spoke to them of the Father.

 ²⁸Jesus therefore said to them, When ye shall have lifted up the Son of man, then ye shall know that I am [he], and [that] I do nothing of myself, but as the Father has taught me I speak these things.

 ²⁹And he that has sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, because I do always the things that are pleasing to him.

 ³⁰As he spoke these things many believed on him.

 ³¹Jesus therefore said to the Jews who believed him, If ye abide in my word, ye are truly my disciples;

 ³²and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

 ³³They answered him, We are Abraham's seed, and have never been under bondage to any one; how sayest thou, Ye shall become free?

 ³⁴Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Every one that practises sin is the bondman of sin.

 ³⁵Now the bondman abides not in the house for ever: the son abides for ever.

 ³⁶If therefore the Son shall set you free, ye shall be really free.

 ³⁷I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word has no entrance in you.

 ³⁸I speak what I have seen with my Father, and ye then do what ye have seen with your father.

 ³⁹They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus says to them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham;

 ⁴⁰but now ye seek to kill me, a man who has spoken the truth to you, which I have heard from God: this did not Abraham.

 ⁴¹Ye do the works of your father. They said [therefore] to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one father, God.

 ⁴²Jesus said to them, If God were your father ye would have loved me, for I came forth from God and am come [from him]; for neither am I come of myself, but *he* has sent me.

 ⁴³Why do ye not know my speech? Because ye cannot hear my word.

 ⁴⁴Ye are of the devil, as [your] father, and ye desire 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. When he speaks falsehood, he speaks of what is his own; for he is a liar and its father:

 ⁴⁵and because I speak the truth, ye do not believe me.

 ⁴⁶Which of you convinces me of sin? If I speak truth, why do ye not believe me?

 ⁴⁷He that is of God hears the words of God: therefore ye hear [them] not, because ye are not of God.

 ⁴⁸The Jews answered and said to him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan and hast a demon?

 ⁴⁹Jesus answered, I have not a demon; but I honour my Father, and ye dishonour me.

 ⁵⁰But I do not seek my own glory: there is he that seeks and judges.

 ⁵¹Verily, verily, I say unto you, If any one shall keep my word, he shall never see death.

 ⁵²The Jews therefore said to him, Now we know that thou hast a demon. Abraham has died, and the prophets, and thou sayest, If any one keep my word, he shall never taste death.

 ⁵³Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who has died? and the prophets have died: whom makest thou thyself?

 ⁵⁴Jesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father who glorifies me, [of] whom ye say, He is our God.

 ⁵⁵And ye know him not; but I know him; and if I said, I know him not, I should be like you, a liar. But I know him, and I keep his word.

 ⁵⁶Your father Abraham exulted in that he should see my day, and he saw and rejoiced.

 ⁵⁷The Jews therefore said to him, Thou hast not yet fifty years, and hast thou seen Abraham?

 ⁵⁸Jesus said to them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

 ⁵⁹They took up therefore stones that they might cast [them] at him; but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple, [going through the midst of them, and thus passed on.]