John 8:1-8 ▼

1 while Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

2 But early in the morning he arrived again in the temple area, and all the people started coming to him, and he sat down and taught them.

3 Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and made her stand in the middle.

4 They said to him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery.

5 Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?”

6 They said this to test him, so that they could have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger.

7 But when they continued asking him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”

8 Again he bent down and wrote on the ground.