John 7:53-John 8:11 - The Woman Caught In Adultery

⁵³ [An early interpolation, but probably true]. And every man went to his own house;

¹ and Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

² And in the morning he went again to the temple, and all the people came to him, and he sat and taught them.

³ And the scribes and Pharisees brought him a woman taken in adultery, and placing her in the midst ⁴ said to him, Teacher, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. ⁵ In the law, Moses commanded us that such should be stoned; what therefore do you say? ⁶ They said this to try him, that they might have something of which to accuse him. But Jesus, stooping down, wrote with his finger on the ground. ⁷ And when they continued asking him, rising up, he said to them, Let him that has not sinned among you first cast the stone at her.

⁸ And again stooping down he wrote on the ground. ⁹ But they hearing, and being convicted by their consciences, went out, one by one, beginning with the oldest, even to the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. ¹⁰ And Jesus rising up and seeing no one but the woman, said to her, Woman, where are those your accusers? Has no man condemned you?

¹¹ And she said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said to her, Neither do I condemn you; go, and sin no more.