In the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?”
Note. This passage (the woman caught in adultery) is missing from the earliest manuscripts; the tradition preserves it here.
In context
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. 7When they kept pressing him with questions, he straightened up and said to them, “Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”
