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but early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them.
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As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd.
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“Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of adultery.
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The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?”
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They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger.
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They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!”