King James Version (KJV)
John 8:5
“Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?”
Verse in context — John 8
3
And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
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They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
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Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
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This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with [his] finger wrote on the ground, [as though he heard them not].
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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.›
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