John 7:53-8:11

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^53 [a] Then the meeting broke up and everybody went home.

8 Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives, ² but early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and talked to them. ³ As he was speaking, the Jewish leaders and Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery and placed her out in front of the staring crowd.

⁴ “Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the very act of adultery. ⁵ Moses’ law says to kill her. What about it?”

⁶ They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger. ⁷ They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, hurl the stones at her until she dies. But only he who never sinned may throw the first!”

⁸ Then he stooped down again and wrote some more in the dust. ⁹ And the Jewish leaders slipped away one by one, beginning with the eldest, until only Jesus was left in front of the crowd with the woman.

¹⁰ Then Jesus stood up again and said to her, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?”

¹¹ “No, sir,” she said.

And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and sin no more.”