[The earliest manuscripts do not include 7:53–8:11.]¹

[[53 They went each to his own house, 1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2 Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and ^btaught them. 3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in ^cadultery, and placing her in the midst 4 they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. 5 Now ^din the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” 6 ^eThis they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.