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“Now Moses, in our Law, commanded that such should be stoned. What do You say, therefore?”

Now they said this to tempt Him, so that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus, having stooped down, wrote on the ground with His finger.

And while they continued asking Him, He lifted Himself up, and said to them, “Let the one among you without sin cast the first stone at her.”

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In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women.(A) Now what do you say?” They were using this question as a trap,(B) in order to have a basis for accusing him.(C)

But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone(D) at her.”(E)

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