English Standard Version

John 8:4-8 English Standard Version (ESV)

4. they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery.

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

6. This they said to test him, 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, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”

8. And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground.