45 So the ministers returned to the chief priests and the Pharisees, and these said to them, 'Why did you not bring him?'

E-46 The ministers answered, "Never did a man speak like this man."

47 And the Pharisees said unto them, Have ye also been deceived?

48 Did any of the rulers, or of the Pharisees, believe in him?

49 But this people are ignorant of the law, accursed are they.

50 Nicodemus, who came to him by night, being one of them, said to them,

51 Does our law judge a man, unless they first hear him, and know what he is doing?

52 And they said to him, 'Are you not also of Galilee?' look and see that there is no prophet coming from Galilee.

53 And they all went to their homes.

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1 And Jesus went up to the Mount of Olives.

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

3 Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought to him a woman who had been taken in adultery, and having set her in the midst,

4 And they said unto him, Master! this woman was taken in adultery;

5 And Moses in the law commanded us to stone such people: What wilt thou say?

6 And they said these things, tempting him, that they might find something to accuse him. But Jesus, bending low, wrote with his finger on the ground, paying no attention to them.

7 And when they continued to question him, he lifted himself up, and said to them, 'He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to cast a stone at her.'

8 And again, stooping low, he wrote on the ground.

9 And when they heard *this*, and were rebuked by their conscience, they began to depart one by one, from the eldest to the last; and only Jesus remained, and the woman standing in the middle.

10 And Jesus, having lifted himself up, and seeing none but the woman, said unto her, 'Woman! Where are your accusers? Has no one condemned you?

11 And she answered, 'None, Lord.' Jesus said to her, "Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.