| 1 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts,
where all the people gathered around him, and he
sat down to teach them.
3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought
in a woman caught in adultery. They made her
stand before the group
4 and said to Jesus, \"Teacher, this woman was
caught in the act of adultery.
5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such
women. Now what do you say?\"
6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to
have a basis for accusing him.
7 But Jesus bent down and started to write on the
ground with his finger. When 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.\"
8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
9 At 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.
10 Jesus 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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