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look and see that there is no prophet coming from Galilee.

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And they all went home.

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And in the morning he came to the temple again, and all the people went to Him. He sat down and taught them.

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Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman who had been taken in adultery, and having placed her in the midst, they said to Him, "Teacher! this woman was taken in adultery;

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and Moses commanded us in the law to stone such people: What say thou? And they said these things, tempting Him, that they might find something to accuse Him.

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But Jesus, bending low, wrote with his finger on the ground, paying no attention to them.

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And when they continued to question him, he lifted himself up, and said to them, "Whosoever is without sin among you, let him be the first to cast a stone upon her."

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And again, bending low, he wrote on the ground.

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And they, hearing this, and being rebuked by their conscience, began to depart one by one, from the eldest to the last;

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and only Jesus remained, and the woman standing in the middle. Jesus, having risen up and seeing no one but the woman, said to her, "Woman! Where are your accusers? Has no one condemned you?

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She answered: "No one, Lord! Jesus said to her, "Neither do I condemn you;

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go and sin no more.

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Again Jesus spoke to the people, and said to them, I am the light of the world;

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whoever follows me will not walk in darkness;