mnt - John:7:45-8:11

mnt@John:7:45 @ and they asked them, "Why have you not brought him?"

mnt@John:7:46 @ The officers answered, "Never yet did a man speak like this man."

mnt@John:7:47 @ "Surely you have not been led astray, have you? answered the Pharisees.

mnt@John:7:48 @ "Has any one of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees?

mnt@John:7:49 @ "As for this mob who do not understand the Law, they are accursed!"

mnt@John:7:50 @ Nicodemus, one of their number, he who had formerly visited Jesus, said to them,

mnt@John:7:51 @ "Our law does not condemn the accused, does it, before hearing his defense, and finding out what he is doing?"

mnt@John:7:52 @ In answer they said to him. "You are not from Galilee, are you? Search for yourself, and see that from Galilee arises no prophet."

mnt@John:7:53 @ Then they departed each to his own house.

mnt@John:8:1 @ Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

mnt@John:8:2 @ At dawn, however, he came back to the Temple, where the people came to him in crowds. He had taken his seat and was teaching them,

mnt@John:8:3 @ when the Scribes and Pharisees had brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They made her stand in the middle of the court, and said to him.

mnt@John:8:4 @ "Rabbi, this woman has been found in the very act of adultery.

mnt@John:8:5 @ "Now Moses, in the Law, has commanded us to stone such creatures. But you, what do you say?"

mnt@John:8:6 @ (This they said to tempt him, so that they could bring a charge against him.)

mnt@John:8:7 @ But Jesus stooped down, and began to write on the ground with his finger. When they continued to question him, he raised himself and said to them, "Let the innocent man among you be the first to throw the stone at her."

mnt@John:8:8 @ Then he stooped down again, and again began to write on the ground.

mnt@John:8:9 @ When they heard that, they went out one by one, beginning with the eldest. And Jesus was left behind alone - and the woman in the middle of the court.

mnt@John:8:10 @ Then Jesus raised himself up and said to her. "Woman, where are they? Has no man condemn you,"

mnt@John:8:11 @ "No one, Sir," she answered. "Neither do I condemned you," said Jesus. "Go, and never sin again."