Verse 7 So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first." The Mount of Olives is a hill running north to south about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) long, directly east of Jerusalem across the Kidron Valley named for the large number of olive trees that grew on it. 1899) But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Mount of Olives, viewed eastward from Jerusalem (c. Jesus returns to the Temple early the next morning. This is the only mention of the Mount of Olives in John's Gospel, although it is also referred to in John 18:1, "Jesus crossed the Kidron Valley with his disciples and entered a grove of olive trees". Narrative Īt the end of the Feast of Tabernacles, Jesus goes overnight to the Mount of Olives ( John 8:1), "lodging probably in the house of Lazarus", according to the Expositor's Greek Testament, whilst everyone else "goes home" ( John 7:53). Here, as in the Synoptic Gospels, Jesus does not reject the law directly but criticizes those who 'apply it mechanically', for the law should be interpreted 'in the light of God's mercy for sinners'. The style of the story may be compared with Luke 7:36–50, and could be called a 'biographical apophthegm', in which a saying of Jesus may have been developed into the story of a woman caught in adultery. Some manuscripts place it after John 7:36, John 7:44, or John 21:25, whereas a group of manuscripts known as the "Ferrar group" place it after Luke 21:38. Most manuscripts that contain the text place it after John 7:52, probably because of the words 'neither do I condemn you' in 8:11, which are comparable to John 8:15. It is considered canonical, but not found in some ancient Greek manuscripts of the New Testament (such as P 66, P 75, Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Vaticanus) and some old translations). The first eleven verses in chapter 8 are usually grouped with a previous verse, John 7:53, to form a passage known as " Pericope adulterae" or " Pericope de Adultera".
Main article: Jesus and the woman taken in adultery Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are: The original text was written in Koine Greek. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am". In verses 56–58, Jesus claims to have pre-existed (or, according to non-Trinitarian interpretations, been foreordained ) before Abraham. In verse 12, Jesus describes himself as "the light of the world" and verse 32 contains the well-known teaching "ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free". Verses 1-11, along with John 7:53, form a pericope which is missing from some ancient Greek manuscripts. It continues the account of Jesus' debate with the Pharisees after the Feast of Tabernacles, which began in the previous chapter. John 8 is the eighth chapter in the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. John 8:14-22 on Papyrus 39 from the 3rd century
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