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John
8
1But
Jesus went to the Mount of
Olives. 2At dawn he
appeared again in the temple
courts, where all the people
gathered around him, and he
sat down to teach them.
3The teachers of the
law and the Pharisees brought in
a woman caught in adultery. They
made her stand before the group
4and said to Jesus,
"Teacher, this woman was caught
in the act of adultery.
5In the Law Moses
commanded us to stone such
women. Now what do you
say?" 6They were using
this question as a trap, in order
to have a basis for accusing
him.
But
Jesus bent down and started to
write on the ground with his
finger. 7When they
kept on questioning him,
he straightened up and said
to them, "If any one of you is
without sin, let him
be the first to throw a stone at
her." 8Again he
stooped down and wrote
on the ground.
9At
this, those who heard began to go
away one at a time, the older
ones first, until only Jesus was
left, with the woman still
standing there.
10Jesus straightened
up and asked her,
"Woman, where are they? Has
no one condemned you?"
11"No
one, sir," she said.
"Then
neither do I condemn you,"
Jesus declared. "Go
now and leave your life
of sin."
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