and said to him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act.
Note. This passage (the woman caught in adultery) is missing from the earliest manuscripts; the tradition preserves it here.
In context
2At daybreak he appeared again in the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach them. 3The scribes and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand in the middle 4and said to him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. 5In the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” 6They said this to test him, so that they would have grounds to accuse him. But Jesus bent down and began writing on the ground with his finger.
