7. They kept asking him questions. So he stood up and said to them, "Has any one of you not sinned? Then you be the first to throw a stone at her."
8. He bent down again and wrote on the ground.
9. Those who heard what he had said began to go away. They left one at a time, the older ones first. Soon only Jesus was left. The woman was still standing there.
10. Jesus stood up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Hasn't anyone found you guilty?"
11. "No one, sir," she said. "Then I don't find you guilty either," Jesus said. "Go now and leave your life of sin."
12. Jesus spoke to the people again. He said, "I am the light of the world. Those who follow me will never walk in darkness. They will have the light that leads to life."
13. The Pharisees argued with him. "Here you are," they said, "appearing as your own witness. But your witness does not count."