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John 8:23 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing and how to apply it today
Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world. "
John 8:23
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
21 Jesus said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.”
22 The Jews therefore said, “Will he kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come’?”
23 He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.
24 I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”
25 They said therefore to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.
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John 8:1
"but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives."
John 8:2
"Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down and taught them."
John 8:3
"The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle,"
John 8:4
"they told him, “Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act."
John 8:5
"Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. What then do you say about her?”"
John 8:6
"They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger."
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