Iohannem 8
1 Iesus autem perrexit in montem Oliveti:
Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
2 et diluculo iterum venit in templum, et omnis populus venit ad eum, et sedens docebat eos.
And at dawn He went again into the temple, and all the people were coming to Him; so sitting down He started to teach them.
3 Adducunt autem Scribae, et Pharisaei mulierem in adulterio deprehensam: et statuerunt eam in medio,
Then the scribes and the Pharisees bring to Him a woman caught in adultery; and placing her in the center
4 et dixerunt ei: Magister, haec mulier modo deprehensa est in adulterio.
they say to Him: “Teacher, we found this woman committing adultery, in the very act.
5 In lege autem Moyses mandavit nobis huiusmodi lapidare. Tu ergo quid dicis?
Now in our law Moses commanded that such women are to be stoned; so what do you say?”
6 Hoc autem dicebant tentantes eum, ut possent accusare eum. Iesus autem inclinans se deorsum, digito scribebat in terra.
They said this to test Him, so that they might have an accusation against Him. But stooping down Jesus began to write on the ground with His finger, taking no notice.
7 Cum ergo perseverarent interrogantes eum, erexit se, et dixit eis: Qui sine peccato est vestrum, primus in illam lapidem mittat.
But since they kept on asking Him, straightening up He said to them, “Let the one without sin among you throw the first stone at her.”
8 Et iterum se inclinans, scribebat in terra.
And stooping down again He continued writing on the ground.
9 Audientes autem haec unus post unum exibant, incipientes a senioribus: et remansit solus Iesus, et mulier in medio stans.
Now upon hearing this, and being convicted by their conscience, they began to go out one by one, starting with the older ones down to the least. So only Jesus was left, with the woman in the center.
10 Erigens autem se Iesus, dixit ei: Mulier, ubi sunt, qui te accusabant? nemo te condemnavit?
So straightening up, and not seeing anyone except the woman, Jesus said to her: “Where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?”
11 Quae dixit: Nemo, Domine. Dixit autem Iesus: Nec ego te condemnabo: Vade, et iam amplius noli peccare.
So she said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said to her: “Neither do I condemn you. Go, and from now on don't sin any more!”
12 Iterum ergo locutus est eis Iesus, dicens: Ego sum lux mundi: qui sequitur me, non ambulat in tenebris, sed habebit lumen vitae.
Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying: “I am the Light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk around in the darkness, but will have the light of the Life.”
13 Dixerunt ergo ei Pharisaei: Tu de teipso testimonium perhibes: testimonium tuum non est verum.
So the Pharisees said to Him, “You are testifying about yourself; your testimony is not valid.”
14 Respondit Iesus, et dixit eis: Et si ego testimonium perhibeo de meipso, verum est testimonium meum: quia scio unde veni, et quo vado: vos autem nescitis unde venio, aut quo vado.
Jesus answered and said to them: “Even though I testify about myself, my testimony is valid, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I come from or where I am going.
15 Vos secundum carnem iudicatis: ego non iudico quemquam:
You are judging according to the flesh; I am not judging anyone.
16 et si iudico ego, iudicium meum verum est, quia solus non sum: sed ego, et qui misit me, Pater.
Yet even if I do judge, my judging is valid, in that I am not alone in judging, but I and the Father who sent me are together.
17 Et in lege vestra scriptum est, quia duorum hominum testimonium verum est.
It is written precisely in your law that the testimony of two men is valid:
18 Ego sum, qui testimonium perhibeo de me ipso: et testimonium perhibet de me, qui misit me, Pater.
I am one testifying concerning myself and the Father who sent me testifies concerning me.”
19 Dicebant ergo ei: Ubi est Pater tuus? Respondit Iesus: Neque me scitis, neque Patrem meum: si me sciretis, forsitan et Patrem meum sciretis.
Then they said to Him, “Where is your father?” Jesus answered: “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me you would also know my Father.”
20 Haec verba locutus est Iesus in gazophylacio, docens in templo: et nemo apprehendit eum, quia necdum venerat hora eius.
Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, while teaching in the temple; yet no one arrested Him, because His time had not yet come.
21 Dixit ergo iterum eis Iesus: Ego vado, et quaeretis me, et in peccato vestro moriemini. Quo ego vado, vos non potestis venire.
Then Jesus said to them again: “I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.”
22 Dicebant ergo Iudaei: Numquid interficiet semetipsum, quia dixit: Quo ego vado, vos non potestis venire?
So the Jews said, “He won't kill himself, will he, since he says, ‘Where I am going you cannot come’?”
23 Et dicebat eis: Vos de deorsum estis, ego de superius sum. Vos de mundo hoc estis, ego non sum de hoc mundo.
He said to them: “You are from below; I am from Above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
24 Dixi ergo vobis quia moriemini in peccatis vestris: si enim non credideritis quia ego sum, moriemini in peccato vestro.
That is why I told you that you will die in your sins, because if you do not believe that I am, you will die in your sins.”
25 Dicebant ergo ei: Tu quis es? Dixit eis Iesus: Principium, qui et loquor vobis.
So they said to Him, “Who are you?” And Jesus said to them: “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.
26 Multa habeo de vobis loqui, et iudicare. sed qui me misit, verax est: et ego quae audivi ab eo, haec loquor in mundo.
I have many things to say and to judge about you, but He who sent me is true, and what I myself have heard from Him—these things I say to the world.”
27 Et non cognoverunt quia Patrem eius dicebat Deum.
They did not understand that He was speaking to them about the Father.
28 Dixit ergo eis Iesus: Cum exaltaveritis Filium hominis, tunc cognoscetis quia ego sum, et a meipso facio nihil, sed sicut docuit me Pater, haec loquor:
Then Jesus said to them: “When you lift up the Son of the Man, then you will know that I am and that I do nothing from myself; but just as my Father has taught me, these things I speak.
29 et qui me misit, mecum est, et non reliquit me solum: quia ego quae placita sunt ei, facio semper.
And the One who sent me is with me. The Father has not left me alone, because I always do the things that please Him.”
30 Haec illo loquente, multi crediderunt in eum.
While He was saying these things many believed into Him.
31 Dicebat ergo Iesus ad eos, qui crediderunt ei, Iudaeos: Si vos manseritis in sermone meo, vere discipuli mei eritis:
So Jesus said to those Jews who had believed Him: “If you abide in my word, you really are my disciples;
32 et cognoscetis veritatem, et veritas liberabit vos.
and you will know the Truth, and the Truth will make you free.”
33 Responderunt ei: Semen Abrahae sumus, et nemini servivimus umquam: quomodo tu dicis: Liberi eritis?
They answered and said to Him: “We are descendants of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How can you say, ‘You will be made free’?”
34 Respondit eis Iesus: Amen, amen dico vobis: quia omnis, qui facit peccatum, servus est peccati.
Jesus answered them: “I tell you most assuredly that everyone committing sin is a slave of sin.
Now the slave does not remain in the household forever; the son does remain forever. (aiōn g165)
36 si ergo vos filius liberaverit, vere liberi eritis.
Therefore, if the Son should make you free, you really will be free.
37 Scio quia filii Abrahae estis: sed quaeritis me interficere, quia sermo meus non capit in vobis.
I know that you are descendants of Abraham, but you are wanting to kill me because my word finds no place in you.
38 Ego quod vidi apud Patrem meum, loquor: et vos quae vidistis apud patrem vestrum, facitis.
On my part, I speak what I have observed with my Father, while on your part you do what you have observed with your father.”
39 Responderunt, et dixerunt ei: Pater noster Abraham est. Dicit eis Iesus: Si filii Abrahae estis, opera Abrahae facite.
They answered and said to Him, “Our father is Abraham!” Jesus says to them: “If you were children of Abraham, you would do the works of Abraham;
40 Nunc autem quaeritis me interficere, hominem, qui veritatem vobis locutus sum, quam audivi a Deo: hoc Abraham non fecit.
but now you are wanting to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. This sort of thing Abraham did not do!
41 Vos facitis opera patris vestri. Dixerunt itaque ei: Nos ex fornicatione non sumus nati: unum patrem habemus Deum.
You do the works of your father.” Then they said to Him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father—God.”
42 Dixit ergo eis Iesus: Si Deus pater vester esset: diligeretis utique et me. ego enim ex Deo processi, et veni: neque enim a meipso veni, sed ille me misit.
So Jesus said to them: “If God were your Father, you would love me, because I came forth from God and I am here. Further, I have not come on my own, but He sent me.
43 Quare loquelam meam non cognoscitis? Quia non potestis audire sermonem meum.
Why don't you understand what I say?—because you are not able to really hear my word.
44 Vos ex patre diabolo estis: et desideria patris vestri vultis facere. ille homicida erat ab initio, et in veritate non stetit: quia non est veritas in eo: cum loquitur mendacium, ex propriis loquitur, quia mendax est, et pater eius.
You are of your father the devil, and it is the desires of your father that you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks the lie he speaks from his own things, because he is a liar and the father of lying.
45 Ego autem si veritatem dico, non creditis mihi.
But since I speak the truth you do not believe me.
46 Quis ex vobis arguet me de peccato? Si veritatem dico vobis, quare non creditis mihi?
Which of you convicts me of sin? So if I speak the truth, why do you not believe me?
47 Qui ex Deo est, verba Dei audit. Propterea vos non auditis, quia ex Deo non estis.
The one who is of God hears God's words; that is why you do not hear, because you are not of God.”
48 Responderunt ergo Iudaei, et dixerunt ei: Nonne bene dicimus nos quia Samaritanus es tu, et daemonium habes?
So the Jews answered and said to Him, “We say that you are a Samaritan and have a demon—are we wrong?”
49 Respondit Iesus: Ego daemonium non habeo: sed honorifico Patrem meum, et vos inhonorastis me.
Jesus answered: “I do not have a demon; rather, I honor my Father, while you dishonor me.
50 Ego autem non quaero gloriam meam: est qui quaerat, et iudicet.
Yet I do not seek my glory; there is One who seeks and judges.
51 Amen, amen dico vobis: si quis sermonem meum servaverit, mortem non videbit in aeternum. (aiōn g165)
Most assuredly I say to you, if anyone should keep my word he will never ever see death.” (aiōn g165)
52 Dixerunt ergo Iudaei: Nunc cognovimus quia daemonium habes. Abraham mortuus est, et Prophetae: et tu dicis: Si quis sermonem meum servaverit, non gustabit mortem in aeternum. (aiōn g165)
So the Jews said to Him: “Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died and so did the prophets; yet you say, ‘If anyone should keep my word he will never ever taste death’! (aiōn g165)
53 Numquid tu maior es patre nostro Abraham, qui mortuus est? et Prophetae mortui sunt. Quem te ipsum facis?
Surely you aren't greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets are dead. Who do you make yourself out to be?”
54 Respondit Iesus: Si ego glorifico meipsum, gloria mea nihil est: est Pater meus, qui glorificat me, quem vos dicitis quia Deus vester est,
Jesus answered: “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’
55 et non cognovistis eum: ego autem novi eum: Et si dixero quia non scio eum, ero similis vobis, mendax. Sed scio eum, et sermonem eius servo.
Yet you have not known Him, but I do know Him. And if I should say that I do not know Him I would be a liar just like you (pl); but I do know Him and I keep His word.
56 Abraham pater vester exultavit ut videret diem meum: vidit, et gavisus est.
Your father Abraham was overjoyed to see my day; yes, he saw it and rejoiced.”
57 Dixerunt ergo Iudaei ad eum: Quinquaginta annos nondum habes, et Abraham vidisti?
So the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and you have seen Abraham?!”
58 Dixit eis Iesus: Amen, amen dico vobis, antequam Abraham fieret, ego sum.
Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM!”
59 Tulerunt ergo lapides, ut iacerent in eum: Iesus autem abscondit se, et exivit de templo.
Then they picked up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus was concealed and went out of the temple, going through the middle of them; yes, that is how He got away!
