But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
John 8:7 in context
John 8:4–10
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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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But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.”
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Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.
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They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.
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Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, “Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?”
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