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John 8:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11

John 8:1 NIV

but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

John 8:2 NIV

At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them.

John 8:3 NIV

The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group

John 8:4 NIV

and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.

John 8:5 NIV

In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?”

John 8:6 NIV

They 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.

John 8:7 NIV

When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”

John 8:9 NIV

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.

John 8:10 NIV

Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

John 8:11 NIV

“No one, sir,” she said. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”