John 7:43-8:11

English Standard Version

⁴³ So there was ^(A)a division among the people over him. ^44 (B)Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.

^45 (C)The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why did you not bring him?” ⁴⁶ The officers answered, ^(D)“No one ever spoke like this man!” ⁴⁷ The Pharisees answered them, ^(E)“Have you also been deceived? ^48 (F)Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him? ⁴⁹ But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.” ^50 (G)Nicodemus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them, ^51 (H)“Does our law judge a man without first ^(I)giving him a hearing and learning what he does?” ⁵² They replied, ^(J)“Are you from Galilee too? Search and see that ^(K)no prophet arises from Galilee.”

[The earliest manuscripts do not include 7:53–8:11.]^[a]

The Woman Caught in Adultery

⁵³ [[They went each to his own house, 8 ¹ but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. ^2 (L)Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and ^(M)he sat down and taught them. ³ The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst ⁴ they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. ⁵ Now ^(N)in the Law, Moses commanded us ^(O)to stone such women. So what do you say?” ⁶ This they said ^(P)to test him, ^(Q)that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. ⁷ And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, ^(R)“Let him who is without sin among you ^(S)be the first to throw a stone at her.” ⁸ And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. ⁹ But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. ¹⁰ Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” ¹¹ She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, ^(T)“Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on ^(U)sin no more.”]]