John 7:37-8:11

New King James Version

The Promise of the Holy Spirit

^37 (A)On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, ^(B)“If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. ^38 (C)He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, ^(D)out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” ^39 (E)But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those ^[a]believing in Him would receive; for the ^[b]Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet ^(F)glorified.

Who Is He?

⁴⁰ Therefore ^[c]many from the crowd, when they heard this saying, said, “Truly this is ^(G)the Prophet.” ⁴¹ Others said, “This is ^(H)the Christ.”

But some said, “Will the Christ come out of Galilee? ^42 (I)Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, ^(J)where David was?” ⁴³ So ^(K)there was a division among the people because of Him. ⁴⁴ Now ^(L)some of them wanted to take Him, but no one laid hands on Him.

Rejected by the Authorities

⁴⁵ Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why have you not brought Him?”

⁴⁶ The officers answered, ^(M)“No man ever spoke like this Man!”

⁴⁷ Then the Pharisees answered them, “Are you also deceived? ⁴⁸ Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him? ⁴⁹ But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.”

⁵⁰ Nicodemus ^(N)(he who came to ^[d]Jesus ^[e]by night, being one of them) said to them, ^51 (O)“Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?”

⁵² They answered and said to him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and look, for ^(P)no prophet ^[f]has arisen out of Galilee.”

An Adulteress Faces the Light of the World

^53 [g]And everyone went to his own house.

Jesus the Light of the World

8 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

² Now ^[h]early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and ^(Q)taught them. ³ Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, ⁴ they said to Him, “Teacher, ^[i]this woman was caught in ^(R)adultery, in the very act. ^5 (S)Now ^[j]Moses, in the law, commanded us ^[k]that such should be stoned. But what do You ^[l]say?” ⁶ This they said, testing Him, that they ^(T)might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, ^[m]as though He did not hear.

⁷ So when they continued asking Him, He ^[n]raised Himself up and said to them, ^(U)“He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.” ⁸ And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. ⁹ Then those who heard it, ^(V)being^[o] convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. ¹⁰ When Jesus had raised Himself up ^[p]and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, “Woman, where are those accusers ^[q]of yours? Has no one condemned you?”

¹¹ She said, “No one, Lord.”

And Jesus said to her, ^(W)“Neither do I condemn you; go ^[r]and ^(X)sin no more.”