8But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. ²Now early in the morning he came again to the temple courts.^* And all the people were coming,^a and he sat down and^* began to teach^* them.

³Now the scribes and the Pharisees brought to him a woman^b caught in adultery. And standing her in their midst, ⁴they said to him, testing him,^c “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery! ⁵Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” ⁶(Now they were saying this to test him, so that they would have an occasion^* to bring charges against him.) But Jesus, bending down, began to write^* with his^* finger on the ground, taking no notice.^d ⁷And when they persisted in asking him, straightening up he said^e to them, “The one of you without sin, let him throw the first stone at her!” ⁸And bending down again, he wrote on the ground. ⁹Now when they^* heard it,^* being convicted by their conscience,^f they began to depart,^* one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus^g was left alone—and the woman who was in their midst. ¹⁰So Jesus, straightening up and seeing no one except the woman,^h said to her, “Where are those accusers of yours?ⁱ Does no one condemn you?” ¹¹And she said, “No one, Lord.” So Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go, and^j sin no more.”⟧^k

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Footnotes

o John 7:53–8:11 is not found in the earliest and best manuscripts and was almost certainly not an original part of the Gospel of John; one significant group of Greek manuscripts places it after Luke 21:38
*Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself
aSome manuscripts have “were coming to him”
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“sat down”) has been translated as a finite verb
*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to teach”)
bSome manuscripts have “brought a woman”
cSome manuscripts omit “testing him”
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to write”)
*Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
dSome manuscripts omit “taking no notice”
eSome manuscripts have “he straightened up and said”
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
fSome manuscripts omit “being convicted by their conscience”
*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to depart”)
gSome manuscripts have “he”
hSome manuscripts omit “and seeing no one except the woman”
iSome manuscripts have “said to her, ‘Woman, where are they?”
jSome manuscripts have “and from now on”
k John 7:53–8:11 is not found in the earliest and best manuscripts and was almost certainly not an original part of the Gospel of John; one significant group of Greek manuscripts places it after Luke 21:38