NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 3

John 8:3

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The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle,

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John 8:1–6

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but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

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Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down and taught them.

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The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle,

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they told him, “Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act.

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Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. What then do you say about her?”

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They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of.

But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

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