John 7:40–8:11
40 Some of the people therefore, when they heard these words, were saying, “This certainly is athe Prophet.”
41 Others were saying, “This is 1the Christ.” Still others were saying, “aSurely 1the Christ is not going to come from Galilee, is He?
42 “Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from athe descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”
43 So aa division occurred in the crowd because of Him.
44 aSome of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him.
45 The aofficers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why did you not bring Him?”
46 The aofficers answered, “bNever has a man spoken the way this man speaks.”
47 The Pharisees then answered them, “aYou have not also been led astray, have you?
48 “aNo one of bthe rulers or Pharisees has believed in Him, has he?
49 “But this crowd which does not know the Law is accursed.”
50 aNicodemus (he who came to Him before, being one of them) * said to them,
51 “aOur Law does not judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?”
52 They answered him, “aYou are not also from Galilee, are you? Search, and see that no prophet arises out of Galilee.”
53 [1Everyone went to his home.
1 But Jesus went to athe Mount of Olives.
2 Early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people were coming to Him; and aHe sat down and began to teach them.
3 The scribes and the Pharisees * brought a woman caught in adultery, and having set her in the center of the court,
4 they * said to Him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in adultery, in the very act.
5 “Now in the Law aMoses commanded us to stone such women; what then do You say?”
6 They were saying this, atesting Him, bso that they might have grounds for accusing Him. But Jesus stooped down and with His finger wrote on the ground.
7 But when they persisted in asking Him, aHe straightened up, and said to them, “bHe who is without sin among you, let him be the cfirst to throw a stone at her.”
8 Again He stooped down and wrote on the ground.
9 When they heard it, they began to go out one by one, beginning with the older ones, and He was left alone, and the woman, where she was, in the center of the court.
10 aStraightening up, Jesus said to her, “Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?”
11 She said, “No one, 1Lord.” And Jesus said, “aI do not condemn you, either. Go. From now on bsin no more.”]