44. Some of them wanted to seize him; but no one laid hands on Him.

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

46. The ministers answered, "Never has a man spoken like this man."

47. The Pharisees said to them, "Have you 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, they are cursed.

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

51. Does our law judge a man if they do not first hear him and know what he is doing?

52. To this they said to him, "Are you not also from Galilee?" look and see that there is no prophet coming from Galilee.

53. And they all went home.

Chapter 8

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 set her in the midst,

4. They said to him, "Teacher! this woman was taken in adultery;

5. And Moses in the law commanded us to stone such people: What do you 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 raised himself up and said to them, "Whoever is without sin among you, let him be the first to cast a stone at her."

8. And again, bending 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 elder to the last; and only Jesus remained, and the woman standing in the middle.

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