Jesus and People

¹ But 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, and he sat down and began to teach them. ³ Now the scribes and the Pharisees brought to him a woman caught in adultery. And standing her in their midst, ⁴they said to him, testing him, “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. ⁷And when they persisted in asking him, straightening up he said 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, they began to depart, one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone—and the woman who was in their midst. ¹⁰So Jesus, straightening up and seeing no one except the woman, said to her, “Where are those accusers of yours? Does no one condemn you?” ¹¹And she said, “No one, Lord.” So Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go, and sin no more.”〛