John 88JohnThe book of signsPlain English Version

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1. The Woman Caught in Adultery

2. 1ENGPEVJesus went to the hill called Olive Trees Hill.BSBBSB: But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
3. 2ENGPEVEarly in the morning, he went back to God’s ceremony house in Jerusalem. All the people there went to him, so he sat down and started to teach them.BSBBSB: Early in the morning He went back into the temple courts. All the people came to Him, and He sat down to teach them.
4. 3ENGPEVSome Jewish law teachers, and some of the Pharisee mob, that were strong for the Jewish law, they brought a woman to Jesus, and they told him that she did something really bad. She slept with a man that was not her husband, and she did with him what married people do together. Those men wanted to trick Jesus. They wanted Jesus to say something bad about their law so that they could take Jesus to court and get the judge to punish him. So they made the woman stand in front of everyone, and they asked Jesus a trick question. They said, “Teacher, we caught this woman sleeping with a man that is not her husband, and they were doing what married people do together. In our law, Moses said that we have to throw big stones at her to kill her dead. But what do you reckon we have to do to her?” But Jesus didn’t answer them. He got down and wrote on the ground with his finger.BSBBSB: The scribes and Pharisees, however, brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before them
5. 7ENGPEVThose men kept on asking the same question. So Jesus stood up and said to them, “Have any of you never done anything wrong? That man can go first. He can throw the first stone at her.”BSBBSB: When they continued to question Him, He straightened up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to cast a stone at her.”
6. 8ENGPEVThen Jesus got down again and wrote on the ground.BSBBSB: And again He bent down and wrote on the ground.
7. 9ENGPEVThose men heard his words, and then the oldest man turned around and walked away. Then the next oldest man went away too, and the other men followed one by one. Soon they were all gone, and the woman was the only one standing in front of Jesus.BSBBSB: When they heard this, they began to go away one by one, beginning with the older ones, until only Jesus was left, with the woman standing there.
8. 10ENGPEVJesus stood up and said to the woman, “Where are the men that blamed you? Did any of them say they have to punish you?”BSBBSB: Then Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are your accusers? Has no one condemned you?”
9. 11ENGPEVThe woman said, “None of them, sir.” Jesus said, “And I will not say that anyone has to punish you either. Go home, and, from now on, stop doing bad things.”BSBBSB: “No one, Lord,” she answered. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Now go and sin no more.”

10. Jesus the Light of the World

    (1 John 1:5–10)

11. 12ENGPEVJesus talked to the people again. He said, “I am like a light for all the people in the world. Anyone that follows me will not live the wrong way, as if they are in the dark, but I will show them how to live the right way, like a light shows people the way, and they will live with God for ever.”BSBBSB: Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
12. 13ENGPEVBut the Pharisee mob, that were strong for the Jewish law, they said to Jesus, “You are the only one that is telling this story about yourself. Nobody else is telling the same story, so we can’t agree with you. What you say is not true.”BSBBSB: So the Pharisees said to Him, “You are testifying about Yourself; Your testimony is not valid.”
13. 14ENGPEVJesus said, “Even if I do tell this story about myself, my story is true. You see, you don’t know where I came from, and you don’t know where I am going. But I do know where I came from, and I know where I am going.BSBBSB: Jesus replied, “Even if 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 came from or where I am going.
14. 15ENGPEVYou judge people the way human beings judge people. I am not judging anyone now,BSBBSB: You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.
15. 16ENGPEVbut if I do judge somebody, I judge them the right way. You see, I don’t judge by myself. My father sent me here, and we judge people together.BSBBSB: But even if I do judge, My judgment is true, because I am not alone; I am with the Father who sent Me.
16. 17ENGPEVIn your Jewish law, it says that if 2 people tell the same story, then that shows that their story is true.BSBBSB: Even in your own Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid.
17. 18ENGPEVAll right, I am one person, and my father is the other one. He is the one that sent me to the world. We both tell you the same story about me. And you reckon you follow your law, so you have to believe me.”BSBBSB: I am One who testifies about Myself, and the Father, who sent Me, also testifies about Me.”
18. 19ENGPEVSo then the Pharisee mob asked Jesus, “Where is your father?” Jesus said, “You don’t know me, and you don’t know my father. If somebody knows me, they will know my father too.”BSBBSB: “Where is Your Father?” they asked Him. “You do not know Me or My Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew Me, you would know My Father as well.”
19. 20ENGPEVJesus said all this while he was teaching in God’s ceremony house, near the money box. The people used to put money into that box to give it to God. The Pharisee mob wanted to grab him and kill him, but it was not the right time yet for him to die, so God stopped them, and nobody touched him.BSBBSB: He spoke these words while teaching in the temple courts, near the treasury. Yet no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet come.
20. 21ENGPEVJesus talked to them again. He said, “I am going away. You will look for me, but you will not find me. You can’t go to the place that I am going to. And after you die, you will still be guilty of all the bad things you did, so God will punish you.”BSBBSB: Again He said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for Me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”
21. 22ENGPEVThe Jewish leaders didn’t understand what he said. They asked each other, “Why did he say that we can’t go to the place where he is going? Is he going to kill himself?”BSBBSB: So the Jews began to ask, “Will He kill Himself, since He says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?”
22. 23ENGPEVSo Jesus said, “You are from this world, and you belong down here. But I don’t belong to this world. I came from heaven, and I belong up there.BSBBSB: Then He told them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
23. 24ENGPEVListen, I am the special man that God sent. But you don’t believe that, so after you die, God will punish you for all the bad things you did. I told you that already.”BSBBSB: That is why I told you that you would die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”
24. 25ENGPEVSo the Jewish leaders asked Jesus, “Who do you reckon you are?” Jesus said, “I told you who I am, right from the start.BSBBSB: “Who are You?” they asked. “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning,” Jesus replied.
25. 26ENGPEVI can say a lot about you, and I can even judge you. But I will not do that now. You see, right now I am telling people what I heard from the one that sent me to the world. And you can trust his words. They are true.”BSBBSB: “I have much to say about you and much to judge. But the One who sent Me is truthful, and what I have heard from Him, I tell the world.”
26. 27ENGPEVThe people listening to Jesus didn’t understand that he was talking about his father in heaven.BSBBSB: They did not understand that He was telling them about the Father.
27. 28ENGPEVSo he said, “I am the special man from heaven, and after you put me on a cross and lift me up, you will know who I am. And you will understand that I am not working alone. I only say what my father taught me.BSBBSB: So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own, but speak exactly what the Father has taught Me.
28. 29ENGPEVHe is the one that sent me, and he is with me. He doesn’t leave me, because I always do things that make him happy.”BSBBSB: He who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.”

29. The Truth Will Set You Free

    (2 John 1:4–6)

30. 30ENGPEVA big mob of people were listening to Jesus at that time, and a lot of them believed in him.BSBBSB: As Jesus spoke these things, many believed in Him.
31. 31ENGPEVJesus talked to the Jewish people that believed in him. He said, “If you keep on following me, and if you do the things I teach you, then you will be my proper followers,BSBBSB: So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.
32. 32ENGPEVand you will know the true message. And if you listen to that true message, you will be free.”BSBBSB: Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
33. 33ENGPEVThe Jewish leaders said to Jesus, “We belong to Abraham’s family, so we are God’s special people. We never had to work for somebody for no pay, like a slave. You know, slaves are workers that belong to their boss. They always have to do what their boss tells them to do, and their boss never pays them. But we are not like that. We belong to Abraham’s family, so we are already free. You can’t tell us that we will be free.”BSBBSB: “We are Abraham’s descendants,” they answered. “We have never been slaves to anyone. How can You say we will be set free?”
34. 34ENGPEVJesus said, “Listen, this is the true story. You go against God and do bad things, and everyone that does bad things is like a slave. You can’t stop doing those bad things, so they are your boss.BSBBSB: Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.
35. 35ENGPEVYou know, slaves don’t belong to their boss’s family for ever. But the boss’s son belongs to the family for ever.BSBBSB: A slave does not remain in the house forever, but a son remains forever.
36. 36ENGPEVAnd the boss’s son can let slaves go free. If he does that, they are not slaves any more. Well, God is the biggest boss, and I am his son. And I can make you properly free, so that you can stop doing bad things.BSBBSB: So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
37. 37ENGPEVI know that you all reckon you belong to Abraham’s family. But you don’t like my message, so you want to kill me.BSBBSB: I know you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill Me because My word has no place within you.
38. 38ENGPEVI am only telling you the things I saw, and the things I heard, while I was with my father. But you listen to your father, and you do anything he wants you to do.”BSBBSB: I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”
39. 39ENGPEVThe Jewish leaders said to him, “Look, we belong to Abraham’s family. He is our grand-father that lived a long time ago.” Jesus said, “You reckon you are in Abraham’s family, but you are not. Everyone that is really in Abraham’s family does good things like Abraham did.BSBBSB: “Abraham is our father,” they replied. “If you were children of Abraham,” said Jesus, “you would do the works of Abraham.
40. 40ENGPEVI am telling you the true message I heard from God, and you are trying to kill me. You are nothing like Abraham. He never did bad things like that.BSBBSB: But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham never did such a thing.
41. 41ENGPEVListen, you are doing the things that your father does.” But they said, “God is our father. He is the only father we have, and we are his proper kids.”BSBBSB: You are doing the works of your father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they declared. “Our only Father is God Himself.”
42. 42ENGPEVJesus said to them, “No. God is not your father. You see, God sent me here. It wasn’t my idea to come here, God sent me. But you don’t love me. So I know that God is not your father.BSBBSB: Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on My own, but He sent Me.
43. 43ENGPEVWhy don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you don’t want to do what I say. That is the reason why you don’t listen to me.BSBBSB: Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message.
44. 44ENGPEVSo, really, your father is the devil, the boss over the bad spirits, and you do anything he wants you to do. He was always a murderer and a liar, and nothing he says is true. Whenever he tells lies, he is just doing what he likes to do. All lies come from him. It is like he is the father of all lies.BSBBSB: You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
45. 45ENGPEVBut I am different. I tell you what is true. But you love lies, so you don’t believe me.BSBBSB: But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me!
46. 46ENGPEVNone of you can show that I did anything wrong. You see, everything I tell you is true. So why don’t you believe me?BSBBSB: Which of you can prove Me guilty of sin? If I speak the truth, why do you not believe Me?
47. 47ENGPEVThe people in God’s family listen properly to his words. But you are not in his family, so you don’t listen to him.”BSBBSB: Whoever belongs to God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”

48. Before Abraham Was Born, I Am

49. 48ENGPEVThe Jewish leaders told him, “Hey, you are wrong. We always reckoned that you are a rubbish man from Samaria, and you’ve got a bad spirit inside you. And we are right.”BSBBSB: The Jews answered Him, “Are we not right to say that You are a Samaritan and You have a demon?”
50. 49ENGPEVJesus said, “No. I haven’t got a bad spirit in me. I respect my father, but you don’t respect me.BSBBSB: “I do not have a demon,” Jesus replied, “but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me.
51. 50ENGPEVI’m not trying to get people to say that I am great. But there is somebody else that wants people to say that I am great, and he judges what people say too. Yes, God will show everyone that what I say is right.BSBBSB: I do not seek My own glory. There is One who seeks it, and He is the Judge.
52. 51ENGPEVListen, I am telling you straight, if anyone does what I say, they will never finish up.”BSBBSB: Truly, truly, I tell you, if anyone keeps My word, he will never see death.”
53. 52ENGPEVThen the Jewish leaders said, “Now we know for sure that you have a bad spirit in you. Think about all of our grand-fathers that lived a long time ago. They all died. Our father Abraham died, and so did all the men that told people God’s messages. But you say, ‘If anyone does what I say, they will never finish up.’ You are wrong.BSBBSB: “Now we know that You have a demon!” declared the Jews. “Abraham died, and so did the prophets, yet You say that anyone who keeps Your word will never taste death.
54. 53ENGPEVAre you better than our grand-father Abraham? He died. And all the men that told people God’s messages, they all died too. So, who do you think you are?”BSBBSB: Are You greater than our father Abraham? He died, as did the prophets. Who do You claim to be?”
55. 54ENGPEVJesus said, “If I tell people that I am great, my words mean nothing. But my father is the one that tells people that I am great. And you reckon that he is your God.BSBBSB: Jesus answered, “If I glorify Myself, My glory means nothing. The One who glorifies Me is My Father, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’
56. 55ENGPEVYou mob don’t know God, but I know him. That’s right. I’m not a liar, like you, I’m telling the true story. I know him, and I do what he says.BSBBSB: You do not know Him, but I know Him. If I said I did not know Him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know Him, and I keep His word.
57. 56ENGPEVThink about your father, Abraham. He knew I was going to come into the world, and after he saw it happen, he was really happy.”BSBBSB: Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see My day. He saw it and was glad.”
58. 57ENGPEVThe Jewish leaders said, “Stop. You are not even 50 years old. You can’t say that you saw Abraham.”BSBBSB: Then the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and You have seen Abraham?”
59. 58ENGPEVJesus said, “Listen to this, it’s true. I was alive before Abraham was born. You see, I am always alive.”BSBBSB: “Truly, truly, I tell you,” Jesus declared, “before Abraham was born, I am!”
60. 59ENGPEVThe Jewish leaders didn’t like Jesus saying that he is always alive. That’s the same as saying he is God. So they picked up stones to throw at him. But Jesus hid from them, and then he left God’s ceremony house, and he went away.BSBBSB: At this, they picked up stones to throw at Him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple area.

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