John 7-8 (Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition)

John 7

 ¹After these things Jesus walked in Galilee; for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

    ²Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand.

    ³And his brethren said to him: Pass from hence, and go into Judea; that thy disciples also may see thy works which thou dost.

    ⁴For there is no man that doth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, manifest thyself to the world.

    ⁵For neither did his brethren believe in him.

    ⁶Then Jesus said to them: My time is not yet come; but your time is always ready.

    ⁷The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth: because I give testimony of it, that the works thereof are evil.

    ⁸Go you up to this festival day, but I go not up to this festival day: because my time is not accomplished.

    ⁹When he had said these things, he himself stayed in Galilee.

    ¹⁰But after his brethren were gone up, then he also went up to the feast, not openly, but, as it were, in secret.

    ¹¹The Jews therefore sought him on the festival day, and said: Where is he?

    ¹²And there was much murmuring among the multitude concerning him. For some said: He is a good man. And others said: No, but he seduceth the people.

    ¹³Yet no man spoke openly of him, for fear of the Jews.

    ¹⁴Now about the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.

    ¹⁵And the Jews wondered, saying: How doth this man know letters, having never learned?

    ¹⁶Jesus answered them, and said: My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

    ¹⁷If any man do the will of him; he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

    ¹⁸He that speaketh of himself, seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true, and there is no injustice in him.

    ¹⁹Did Moses not give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law?

    ²⁰Why seek you to kill me? The multitude answered, and said: Thou hast a devil; who seeketh to kill thee?

    ²¹Jesus answered, and said to them: One work I have done; and you all wonder:

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

    ²³If a man receive circumcision on the sabbath day, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are you angry at me because I have healed the whole man on the sabbath day?

    ²⁴Judge not according to the appearance, but judge just judgment.

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

    ²⁶And behold, he speaketh openly, and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers known for a truth, that this is the Christ?

    ²⁷But we know this man, whence he is: but when the Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.

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

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

    ³⁰They sought therefore to apprehend him: and no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

    ³¹But of the people many believed in him, and said: When the Christ cometh, shall he do more miracles, than these which this man doth?

    ³²The Pharisees heard the people murmuring these things concerning him: and the rulers and Pharisees sent ministers to apprehend him.

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

    ³⁴You shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither you cannot come.

    ³⁵The Jews therefore said among themselves: Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?

    ³⁶What is this saying that he hath said: You shall seek me, and shall not find me; and where I am, you cannot come?

    ³⁷And on the last, and great day of the festivity, Jesus stood and cried, saying: If any man thirst, let him come to me, and drink.

    ³⁸He that believeth in me, as the scripture saith, Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

    ³⁹Now this he said of the Spirit which they should receive, who believed in him: for as yet the Spirit was not given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

    ⁴⁰Of that multitude therefore, when they had heard these words of his, some said: This is the prophet indeed.

    ⁴¹Others said: This is the Christ. But some said: Doth the Christ come out of Galilee?

    ⁴²Doth not the scripture say: That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem the town where David was?

    ⁴³So there arose a dissension among the people because of him.

    ⁴⁴And some of them would have apprehended him: but no man laid hands on him.

    ⁴⁵The ministers therefore came to the chief priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them: Why have you not brought him?

    ⁴⁶The ministers answered: Never did man speak like this man.

    ⁴⁷The Pharisees therefore answered them: Are you also seduced?

    ⁴⁸Hath any one of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

    ⁴⁹But this multitude, that knoweth not the law, are accursed.

    ⁵⁰Nicodemus said to them, (he that came to him by night, who was one of them:)

    ⁵¹Doth our law judge any man, unless it first hear him, and know what he doth?

    ⁵²They answered, and said to him: Art thou also a Galilean? Search the scriptures, and see, that out of Galilee a prophet riseth not.

    ⁵³And every man returned to his own house.

   

John 8

 ¹And Jesus went unto mount Olivet.

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

    ³And the scribes and the Pharisees bring unto him a woman taken in adultery: and they set her in the midst,

    ⁴And said to him: Master, this woman was even now taken in adultery.

    ⁵Now Moses in the law commanded us to stone such a one. But what sayest thou?

    ⁶And this they said tempting him, that they might accuse him. But Jesus bowing himself down, wrote with his finger on the ground.

    ⁷When therefore they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said to them: He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

    ⁸And again stooping down, he wrote on the ground.

    ⁹But they hearing this, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest. And Jesus alone remained, and the woman standing in the midst.

    ¹⁰Then Jesus lifting up himself, said to her: Woman, where are they that accused thee? Hath no man condemned thee?

    ¹¹Who said: No man, Lord. And Jesus said: Neither will I condemn thee. Go, and now sin no more.

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

    ¹³The Pharisees therefore said to him: Thou givest testimony of thyself: thy testimony is not true.

    ¹⁴Jesus answered, and said to them: Although I give testimony of myself, my testimony is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go: but you know not whence I come, or whither I go.

    ¹⁵You judge according to the flesh: I judge not any man.

    ¹⁶And if I do judge, my judgment is true: because I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.

    ¹⁷And in your law it is written, that the testimony of two men is true.

    ¹⁸I am one that give testimony of myself: and the Father that sent me giveth testimony of me.

    ¹⁹They said therefore to him: Where is thy Father? Jesus answered: Neither me do you know, nor my Father: if you did know me, perhaps you would know my Father also.

    ²⁰These words Jesus spoke in the treasury, teaching in the temple: and no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

    ²¹Again therefore Jesus said to them: I go, and you shall seek me, and you shall die in your sin. Whither I go, you cannot come.

    ²²The Jews therefore said: Will he kill himself, because he said: Whither I go, you cannot come?

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

    ²⁴Therefore I said to you, that you shall die in your sins. For if you believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sin.

    ²⁵They said therefore to him: Who art thou? Jesus said to them: The beginning, who also speak unto you.

    ²⁶Many things I have to speak and to judge of you. But he that sent me, is true: and the things I have heard of him, these same I speak in the world.

    ²⁷And they understood not, that he called God his Father.

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

    ²⁹And he that sent me, is with me, and he hath not left me alone: for I do always the things that please him.

    ³⁰When he spoke these things, many believed in him.

    ³¹Then Jesus said to those Jews, who believed him: If you continue in my word, you shall be my disciples indeed.

    ³²And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

    ³³They answered him: We are the seed of Abraham, and we have never been slaves to any man: how sayest thou: you shall be free?

    ³⁴Jesus answered them: Amen, amen I say unto you: that whosoever committeth sin, is the servant of sin.

    ³⁵Now the servant abideth not in the house for ever; but the son abideth for ever.

    ³⁶If therefore the son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.

    ³⁷I know that you are the children of Abraham: but you seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.

    ³⁸I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do the things that you have seen with your father.

    ³⁹They answered, and said to him: Abraham is our father. Jesus saith to them: If you be the children of Abraham, do the works of Abraham.

    ⁴⁰But now you seek to kill me, a man who have spoken the truth to you, which I have heard of God. This Abraham did not.

    ⁴¹You do the works of your father. They said therefore to him: We are not born of fornication: we have one Father, even God.

    ⁴²Jesus therefore said to them: If God were your Father, you would indeed love me. For from God I proceeded, and came; for I came not of myself, but he sent me:

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

    ⁴⁴You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and he stood not in the truth; because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

    ⁴⁵But if I say the truth, you believe me not.

    ⁴⁶Which of you shall convince me of sin? If I say the truth to you, why do you not believe me?

    ⁴⁷He that is of God, heareth the words of God. Therefore you hear them not, because you are not of God.

    ⁴⁸The Jews therefore answered, and said to him: Do not we say well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?

    ⁴⁹Jesus answered: I have not a devil: but I honour my Father, and you have dishonoured me.

    ⁵⁰But I seek not my own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.

    ⁵¹Amen, amen I say to you: If any man keep my word, he shall not see death for ever.

    ⁵²The Jews therefore said: Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest: If any man keep my word, he shall not taste death for ever.

    ⁵³Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? and the prophets are dead. Whom dost thou make thyself?

    ⁵⁴Jesus answered: If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father that glorifieth me, of whom you say that he is your God.

    ⁵⁵And you have not known him, but I know him. And if I shall say that I know him not, I shall be like to you, a liar. But I do know him, and do keep his word.

    ⁵⁶Abraham your father rejoiced that he might see my day: he saw it, and was glad.

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

    ⁵⁸Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say to you, before Abraham was made, I am.

    ⁵⁹They took up stones therefore to cast at him. But Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple.