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The Gospel According to JOHN

An incident in the temple*

⁵³ AND THEY WENT each to his home,

Chapter: 8

¹ and Jesus to the Mount of Olives. ² At daybreak he appeared again in the temple, and all the people gathered round him. He had taken his seat and was engaged in teaching them ³ when the doctors of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman detected in adultery. ⁴ Making her stand out in the middle they said to him, 'Master, this woman was caught in the very act of adultery. ⁵ In the Law Moses has laid down that such women are to be stoned. What do you say about it?' ⁶ They put the question as a test, hoping to frame a charge against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. ⁷ When they continued to press their question he sat up straight and said, 'That one of you who is faultless shall throw the first stone.' ⁸ Then once again he bent down and wrote on the ground. ⁹ When they heard what he said, one by one they went away, the eldest first; and Jesus was left alone, with the woman still standing there. ¹⁰ Jesus again sat up and said to the woman, 'Where are they? Has no one condemned you?' ¹¹ 'No one, sir', she said. Jesus replied, 'No more do I. You may go; do not sin again.'

[This passage, which in the most widely received editions of the New Testament is printed in the text of John, 7.53-8.1l, has no fixed place in our ancient manuscripts. Some of them do not contain it at all. Some place it after Luke 21.38, others after John 7.36, or 7.52, or 21.24.]

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