Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

8 Then Jesus went to the hill called the Mount of Olives.

² Early the next morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him. He sat down and taught them.

³ The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman to Jesus. They had caught her having sex with a man who was not her husband. They made the woman stand in front of them.

⁴ They said, `Teacher, this woman has committed adultery. She was caught doing it.

⁵ The law of Moses tells us that the people who do that should be killed with stones. What do you say?'

⁶ They said this to see what Jesus would do, because they wanted to find something wrong with him. Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

⁷ They kept on asking him. He stood up and said to them, `The one among you who has never done any wrong thing may throw the first stone at her.'

⁸ And Jesus bent down again and wrote on the ground.

⁹ When the people heard what he said, they went out, one by one. The oldest one went out first. Jesus was left alone with the woman in front of him.

¹⁰ Jesus looked up and said to her, `Woman, where are the people? Has no one judged you?'

¹¹ She said, `No one, Sir.' Jesus said, `I also do not judge you. Go, and do no wrong thing again.'

¹² Then Jesus talked to the people in the temple. He said, `I am the Light of the world. The one who comes with me will never walk in the dark, but he will have light that gives life.'

¹³ The Pharisees said, `You are talking about yourself. What you say is not true.'

¹⁴ Jesus said to them, `Even if I do talk about myself, what I say is true. I know where I come from and I know where I am going. But you do not know where I came from, or where I am going.

¹⁵ You judge in the way people judge matters. I do not judge any person.

¹⁶ But even if I do judge, I judge right. I am not alone. My Father who sent me is with me.

¹⁷ Even in your law it says that when two people say the same thing, it is true.

¹⁸ I talk about myself, and my Father who sent me talks about me.'

¹⁹ They asked him, `Where is your Father?' He said, `You do not know me and you do not know my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.'