John 7:53-8:12

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁵³ Then each of them went home.^[a]

The Adulteress

8 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. ² Early in the morning, he came back into the temple courts. And all the people kept coming to him. He sat down and taught them.

³ Then the scribes and Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery and had her stand in the center. ⁴ “Teacher,” they said to him, “this woman was caught in the act of committing adultery. ⁵ In the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” ⁶ They asked this to test him, so that they might have evidence to accuse him.

Jesus bent down and started writing on the ground with his finger. ⁷ But when they kept on asking him for an answer, he stood up and said to them, “Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” ⁸ Then he stooped down again and wrote on the ground.

⁹ When they heard this, they went away one by one, beginning with the older men. Jesus was left alone with the woman in the center. ¹⁰ Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

¹¹ “No one, Lord,” she answered.

Then Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go, and from now on do not sin anymore.”

Jesus Is the Light of the World

¹² When Jesus spoke to them again, he said, “I am the Light of the World. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”