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[8:1] Then everyone went home, but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
[8:2] Early the next morning he went back to the Temple. All the people gathered around him, and he sat down and began to teach them.
[8:3] The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees brought in a woman who had been caught committing adultery, and they made her stand before them all.
[8:4] “Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery.
[8:5] In our Law Moses commanded that such a woman must be stoned to death. Now, what do you say?”
[8:6] They said this to trap Jesus, so that they could accuse him. But he bent over and wrote on the ground with his finger.
[8:7] As they stood there asking him questions, he straightened up and said to them, “Whichever one of you has committed no sin may throw the first stone at her.”
[8:8] Then he bent over again and wrote on the ground.
[8:9] When they heard this, they all left, one by one, the older ones first. Jesus was left alone, with the woman still standing there.
[8:10] He straightened up and said to her, “Where are they? Is there no one left to condemn you?”
[8:11] “No one, sir,” she answered. “Well, then,” Jesus said, “I do not condemn you either. Go, but do not sin again.”]