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John 8:1¹But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 21:1 Mark 11:1 Luke 19:37

John 8:2²Early in the morning he came to the temple courts again. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 26:55 Luke 21:37 Luke 4:20 Luke 5:3 Matt 5:1-2 Eccl 9:10 Jer 25:3 Jer 44:4 John 4:34 John 8:20

John 8:3³The experts in the law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught committing adultery. They made her stand in front of themCopy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

John 8:4⁴and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of adultery.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

John 8:5⁵In the law Moses commanded us to stone to death such women. What then do you say?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 20:10 Deut 22:21-24 Ezek 16:38-40 Matt 5:17 Matt 19:6-8 Matt 22:16-18 Ezek 23:47

John 8:6⁶(Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 17:13 Luke 10:25 Amos 5:10 Eccl 3:7 Matt 19:3 Ps 38:12-14 Amos 5:13 Luke 11:53-54 Num 14:22 Prov 26:17

John 8:7⁷When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied, “Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 7:1-5 Rom 2:21-25 Rom 2:1-3 Deut 17:6-7 Matt 23:25-28 Col 4:6 Heb 4:12-13 Ps 50:16-20 Rev 2:16 1 Cor 14:24-25

John 8:8⁸Then he bent over again and wrote on the ground.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

John 8:9⁹Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones, until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Eccl 7:22 Rom 2:15 1 John 3:20 Gen 42:21-22 Job 5:12-13 John 8:10 Ps 71:13 Rom 2:22 1 Kgs 17:18 1 Kgs 2:44

John 8:10¹⁰Jesus stood up straight and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 41:11-12

John 8:11¹¹She replied, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “I do not condemn you either. Go, and from now on do not sin any more.”]]Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 3:17 John 5:14 Isa 1:16-18 John 8:15 Luke 15:7 Luke 5:32 Job 34:31 Prov 28:13 1 Tim 1:15-16 Rom 2:4

John 8:12¹²Then Jesus spoke out again, “I am the light of the world! The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 12:46 John 9:5 John 12:35 Matt 5:14 Job 33:28 John 1:4-9 Ps 18:28 John 3:19 Isa 9:2 Isa 60:1-3

John 8:13¹³So the Pharisees objected, “You testify about yourself; your testimony is not true!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 5:31-47

John 8:14¹⁴Jesus answered, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you people do not know where I came from or where I am going.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 13:3 John 16:28 John 14:10 John 8:42 John 17:8 Num 12:3 Rev 3:14 2 Cor 11:31 2 Cor 12:11 2 Cor 12:19

John 8:15¹⁵You people judge by outward appearances; I do not judge anyone.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 16:7 John 12:47 John 7:24 John 3:17 John 18:36 Rom 2:1 1 Cor 2:15 1 Cor 4:3-5 Amos 5:7 John 8:11

John 8:16¹⁶But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 8:29 Acts 17:31 1 Sam 16:7 Isa 32:1-2 John 16:32 John 5:22-30 Isa 11:2-5 Isa 9:7 Jer 23:5-6 Ps 45:6-7

John 8:17¹⁷It is written in your law that the testimony of two men is true.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 19:15 Deut 17:6 Heb 10:28 Matt 18:16 Gal 3:24 2 Cor 13:1 Gal 4:21 Rev 11:3 1 John 5:9 1 Kgs 21:10

John 8:18¹⁸I testify about myself and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 8:38 John 8:58 Rev 1:17-18 1 John 5:6-12 Heb 2:4 John 10:11 John 10:14 John 10:9 John 14:6 John 5:31-40

John 8:19¹⁹Then they began asking him, “Who is your father?” Jesus answered, “You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 16:3 John 8:54-55 John 14:6-9 2 Cor 4:4-6 1 Cor 15:34 John 1:10 John 7:28 Matt 11:25 2 John 1:9 Jer 24:7

John 8:20²⁰(Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 7:30 John 7:8 Mark 12:41 John 7:44 Mark 12:43 Matt 27:6 1 Chr 9:26 John 10:39 John 11:9-10 John 8:59

John 8:21²¹Then Jesus said to them again, “I am going away, and you will look for me but will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 7:34 John 8:24 1 Cor 15:17-18 Ezek 3:18-19 John 13:33 1 Kgs 18:10 2 Kgs 2:16-17 Isa 65:20 Job 20:11 John 12:33

John 8:22²²So the Jewish leaders began to say, “Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 8:52 John 8:48 Ps 22:6 Heb 12:3 Heb 13:13 John 10:20 John 7:20 John 7:35 Ps 123:4 Ps 31:18

John 8:23²³Jesus replied, “You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 3:31 1 John 2:15-16 John 17:14 John 17:16 1 John 4:5-6 1 John 5:19-20 Jas 4:4 Ps 17:4 1 Cor 15:47-48 Jas 3:15-17

John 8:24²⁴Thus I told you that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 3:36 Mark 16:16 John 3:18 Heb 10:26-29 Heb 12:25 Prov 8:36 Heb 2:3 John 13:19 John 4:26 Acts 4:12

John 8:25²⁵So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus replied, “What I have told you from the beginning.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 5:17-29 John 1:22 John 8:12 Luke 22:67 John 19:9 John 1:19 John 10:24

John 8:26²⁶I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the Father who sent me is truthful, and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 15:15 John 12:47-50 John 8:40 John 17:8 John 7:28 2 Cor 1:18 Heb 5:11-12 John 16:12 John 3:32-33 John 5:42-43

John 8:27²⁷(They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 6:9 2 Cor 4:3-4 Isa 42:18-20 Isa 59:10 John 8:43 John 8:47 Rom 11:7-10

John 8:28²⁸Then Jesus said, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 5:19 John 5:30 John 6:38 John 12:49-50 John 3:14 1 Thess 2:15-16 John 12:32-34 Acts 2:41 Acts 4:4 Heb 2:2-3

John 8:29²⁹And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 6:38 John 16:32 John 15:10 John 4:34 John 5:30 Isa 42:1 John 8:16 John 14:10-11 2 Tim 4:17 Isa 42:6

John 8:30³⁰While he was saying these things, many people believed in him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 7:31 John 2:23 John 10:42 John 11:45 John 6:14

John 8:31³¹Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, “If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciplesCopy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 John 1:9 John 15:4-9 2 Tim 3:14 1 Tim 4:16 Jas 1:25 Col 1:23 1 Sam 12:14 John 6:66-71 Heb 3:14 Matt 24:13

John 8:32³²and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 8:2 John 8:36 John 17:17 1 Pet 2:16 John 14:6 Rom 6:22 Rom 6:14-18 Isa 61:1 Ps 25:5 Gal 5:1

John 8:33³³“We are descendants of Abraham,” they replied, “and have never been anyone’s slaves! How can you say, ‘You will become free’?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 3:9 John 8:39 Gen 15:13 John 8:37 Neh 5:4-8 Neh 9:27-28 Exod 1:13-14 Ezra 9:9 John 19:25 Judg 2:18

John 8:34³⁴Jesus answered them, “I tell you the solemn truth, everyone who practices sin is a slave of sin.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 6:16 2 Pet 2:19 Prov 5:22 1 John 3:8-10 Rom 6:12 Rom 6:6 Titus 3:3 Rom 6:19-20 Eph 2:2 1 Kgs 21:25

John 8:35³⁵The slave does not remain in the family forever, but the son remains forever.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gal 4:4-7 Luke 15:31 Gen 21:10 Rom 8:15-17 Gal 4:30-31 Ezek 46:17 Heb 3:5-6 1 Pet 1:2-5 John 14:19-20 Matt 21:41-43

John 8:36³⁶So if the son sets you free, you will be really free.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Cor 3:17 Gal 5:1 Rom 8:2 John 8:31-32 Luke 4:18 Zech 9:11-12 Isa 61:1 Isa 49:24-25 Ps 119:133 Ps 119:32

John 8:37³⁷I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 2:14 John 8:45-47 Rom 9:7 John 7:1 John 8:59 Acts 13:26 John 8:43 John 11:53 John 12:39-43 John 7:19

John 8:38³⁸I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 5:19 John 8:44 John 12:49-50 John 5:30 John 8:41 1 John 3:8-10 John 14:10 John 14:24 John 3:32 John 8:26

John 8:39³⁹They answered him, “Abraham is our father!” Jesus replied, “If you are Abraham’s children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gal 3:7 John 8:37 Rom 9:7 Rom 2:28-29 Matt 3:9 Matt 5:45 Gal 3:29 Jas 2:22-24 Rom 4:12 Rom 4:16

John 8:40⁴⁰But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 8:26 Gal 4:29 Gal 4:16 Ps 37:32 Rev 12:12-13 1 John 3:12-15 John 8:37-38 John 8:56 Ps 37:12 Rev 12:17

John 8:41⁴¹You people are doing the deeds of your father.” Then they said to Jesus, “We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 64:8 Isa 63:16 John 8:38 John 8:44 Mal 2:11 Deut 14:1 Deut 32:6 Exod 4:22 Isa 57:3-7 Jer 3:19

John 8:42⁴²Jesus replied, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 12:49 John 14:10 John 17:8 John 17:25 John 15:23-24 Mal 1:6 John 1:14 1 John 5:1-2 1 John 4:14 John 5:43

John 8:43⁴³Why don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 12:39-40 John 5:43 John 7:17 Rom 8:7-8 Prov 28:5 Acts 7:51 John 6:60 Jer 6:10 John 8:27 Isa 44:18

John 8:44⁴⁴You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 13:10 1 John 3:12 1 John 3:8-10 2 Cor 11:3 Rev 12:9 John 8:38 Rev 20:7-10 John 8:41 Matt 13:38 1 John 2:4

John 8:45⁴⁵But because I am telling you the truth, you do not believe me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Tim 4:3-4 2 Thess 2:10 Gal 4:16 John 18:37 John 3:19-20 John 7:7

John 8:46⁴⁶Who among you can prove me guilty of any sin? If I am telling you the truth, why don’t you believe me?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 4:15 John 16:8 1 Pet 2:22 2 Cor 5:21 John 14:30 John 15:10 John 8:7 Mark 11:31 Matt 21:25 Heb 7:26

John 8:47⁴⁷The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond, because you don’t belong to God.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 10:26-27 2 John 1:9 John 18:37 1 John 3:10 John 6:45-46 John 8:37 John 8:45 1 John 4:1-6 John 1:12-13 John 17:6-8

John 8:48⁴⁸The Judeans replied, “Aren’t we correct in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 7:20 John 8:52 Jas 2:19 John 10:20 John 4:9 Matt 10:25 Matt 10:5 Matt 12:24 Matt 15:7 Isa 49:7

John 8:49⁴⁹Jesus answered, “I am not possessed by a demon, but I honor my Father—and yet you dishonor me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Pet 2:23 Isa 49:3 John 11:4 John 13:31-32 John 14:13 John 17:4 John 8:29 Matt 3:15-17 Phil 2:6-11 Prov 26:4-5

John 8:50⁵⁰I am not trying to get praise for myself. There is one who demands it, and he also judges.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 5:41 John 8:54 John 7:18 John 5:20-23 John 12:47-48 John 5:45

John 8:51⁵¹I tell you the solemn truth, if anyone obeys my teaching, he will never see death.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 11:25-26 John 5:24 John 3:15-16 John 15:20 John 6:50 Luke 2:26 Heb 11:5 Ps 89:48 John 8:55 John 8:12

John 8:52⁵²Then the Judeans responded, “Now we know you’re possessed by a demon! Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet you say, ‘If anyone obeys my teaching, he will never experience death.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 2:9 John 8:48 John 8:51 John 9:24 Heb 11:13 Zech 1:5-6

John 8:53⁵³You aren’t greater than our father Abraham who died, are you? And the prophets died too! Who do you claim to be?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 4:12 Heb 7:1-7 Isa 9:6 Rom 9:5 Heb 3:2-3 John 10:29-30 John 10:33 John 12:34 John 19:7 John 5:18

John 8:54⁵⁴Jesus replied, “If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless. The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people say, ‘He is our God.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 8:50 Prov 25:27 2 Pet 1:17 2 Cor 10:18 John 16:14-15 Ps 110:1-4 Acts 3:13 Dan 7:13-14 Heb 5:4-5 John 13:31-32

John 8:55⁵⁵Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 8:19 John 7:28-29 John 8:44 John 8:51 Matt 11:27 Rev 3:9 1 John 5:10 Jer 4:22 John 15:21 1 John 2:22

John 8:56⁵⁶Your father Abraham was overjoyed to see my day, and he saw it and was glad.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 11:13 Gal 3:7-9 Gen 22:18 John 8:39 Matt 13:17 Luke 10:24 1 Pet 1:10-12 Heb 11:39 John 8:37 Luke 2:28-30

John 8:57⁵⁷Then the Judeans replied, “You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

John 8:58⁵⁸Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, before Abraham came into existence, I am!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 3:14 Col 1:17 John 17:5 John 1:1-2 Isa 44:6 John 17:24 Heb 13:8 Rev 1:8 Isa 9:6 Isa 48:12

John 8:59⁵⁹Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden from them and went out from the temple area.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 11:8 John 10:30-33 John 10:39-40 Lev 24:16 Luke 4:29-30 2 Kgs 6:18-20 Acts 7:57 Acts 8:39-40 Gen 19:11 John 11:54

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