Testimony Night with Molly Rumley

Welcome to Hype Student Ministries tonight. For tonight we have a testimony night that will go with that passage that we will be reading.

Open your scripture notebooks to John 7:53. Right before John 8 starts.

Before we read I want you to take note of the brackets that are before and after the story of the adulteress forgiven.

What do the Brackets Mean?

The brackets mean that those verses do not appear in the earliest Greek manuscripts that we have. Remember English was the original language of the bible. The Old Testament was written in Hebrew and the New Testament was written in Greek. So then why are they in the bible? Well the earliest greek manuscripts weren’t discovered until after some of the early english bibles were translated. For example, the popular King James Version. Since it would caused such a controversy if they weren’t included, newer english translations include them but in brackets. Even though they weren’t in the earliest manuscripts in John, it is possible that the story really happened but was placed mistakenly in John’s gospel even though it is most likely fits better with Luke’s gospel.

So when we read this story, we must note that it wasn’t original to John’s gospel but we can read it and be reminded of Gospel truths that we already know about.

Read John 7:53-8:20

Christian Standard Bible Chapter 8

[53 Then each one went to his house. 8 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

AN ADULTERESS FORGIVEN

2 At dawn he went to the temple again, and all the people were coming to him. He sat down and began to teach them.

3 Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery, making her stand in the center. 4 “Teacher,” they said to him, “this woman was caught in the act of committing adultery. 5 In the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” 6 They asked this to trap him, in order that they might have evidence to accuse him.

Jesus stooped down and started writing on the ground with his finger. 7 When they persisted in questioning him, he stood up and said to them, “The one without sin among you should be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8 Then he stooped down again and continued writing on the ground. 9 When they heard this, they left one by one, starting with the older men. Only he was left, with the woman in the center. 10 When Jesus stood up, he said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

11 “No one, Lord,” she answered.

“Neither do I condemn you,” said Jesus. “Go, and from now on do not sin anymore.”]

THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD

12 Jesus spoke to them again: “I am the light of the world. Anyone who follows me will never walk in the darkness but will have the light of life.”

13 So the Pharisees said to him, “You are testifying about yourself. Your testimony is not valid.”

14 “Even if I testify about myself,” Jesus replied, “My testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I’m going. But you don’t know where I come from or where I’m going. 15 You judge by human standards., I judge no one. 16 And if I do judge, my judgment is true, because it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me. 17 Even in your law it is written that the testimony of two witnesses is true. 18 I am the one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”

19 Then they asked him, “Where is your Father?”

“You know neither me nor my Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew me, you would also know my Father.” 20 He spoke these words by the treasury, while teaching in the temple. But no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.