John 8:7

But when they continued asking him, he lifted himself up and said to them, Let him that is without sin among you first cast the stone at her.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

In Context

6But this they said proving him, that they might have [something] to accuse him [of]. But Jesus, having stooped down, wrote with his finger on the ground.

8And again stooping down he wrote on the ground.

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Cross References

Psalms 50:16But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant into thy mouth,

Proverbs 26:4Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.

Matthew 7:1Judge not, that ye may not be judged;

John 7:46The officers answered, Never man spoke thus, as this man [speaks].

Romans 2:21thou then that teachest another, dost thou not teach thyself? thou that preachest not to steal, dost thou steal?

Colossians 4:6[Let] your word [be] always with grace, seasoned with salt, [so as] to know how ye ought to answer each one.

Matthew Henry on John 8:2-12

The Woman Taken in Adultery. 1 Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. 2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them. 3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, 4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? 6 This they said, tempting him, that they… Read the whole commentary →

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