8. Bending down again, he wrote on the ground.
9. Those who heard him went away, one by one, beginning with the elders. Finally, only Jesus and the woman were left in the middle of the crowd.
10. Jesus stood up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Is there no one to condemn you?"
11. She said, "No one, sir." Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go, and from now on, don’t sin anymore."
12. Jesus spoke to the people again, saying, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me won’t walk in darkness but will have the light of life."
13. Then the Pharisees said to him, "Because you are testifying about yourself, your testimony isn’t valid."
14. Jesus replied, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, since I know where I came from and where I’m going. You don’t know where I come from or where I’m going.
15. You judge according to human standards, but I judge no one.
16. Even if I do judge, my judgment is truthful, because I’m not alone. My judgments come from me and from the Father who sent me.
17. In your Law it is written that the witness of two people is true.
18. I am one witness concerning myself, and the Father who sent me is the other."
19. They asked him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You don’t know me and you don’t know my Father. If you knew me, you would also know my Father."
20. He spoke these words while he was teaching in the temple area known as the treasury. No one arrested him, because his time hadn’t yet come.
21. Jesus continued, "I’m going away. You will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I’m going, you can’t come."
22. The Jewish leaders said, "He isn’t going to kill himself, is he? Is that why he said, ‘Where I’m going, you can’t come’?"