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John 8:4
they say to him, `Teacher, this woman was taken in the very crime--committing adultery,
John 8:4 · Young's Literal Translation
John 8:4 in other translations
They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
and said, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.
they told him, “Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act.
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In context
1 And at dawn he came again to the temple,
2 and all the people were coming unto him, and having sat down, he was teaching them;
3 and the scribes and the Pharisees bring unto him a woman having been taken in adultery, and having set her in the midst,
4 they say to him, `Teacher, this woman was taken in the very crime--committing adultery,
5 and in the law, Moses did command us that such be stoned; thou, therefore, what dost thou say?'
6 and this they said, trying him, that they might have to accuse him. And Jesus, having stooped down, with the finger he was writing on the ground,
7 and when they continued asking him, having bent himself back, he said unto them, `The sinless of you--let him first cast the stone at her;'
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