1 Mas Jesus foi para o Monte das Oliveiras.

2 Pela manhã cedo voltou ao templo, e todo o povo vinha ter com ele; e Jesus, sentando-se o ensinava.

3 Então os escribas e fariseus trouxeram-lhe uma mulher apanhada em adultério; e pondo-a no meio,

4 disseram-lhe: Mestre, esta mulher foi apanhada em flagrante adultério.

5 Ora, Moisés nos ordena na lei que as tais sejam apedrejadas. Tu, pois, que dizes?

6 Isto diziam eles, tentando-o, para terem de que o acusar. Jesus, porém, inclinando-se, começou a escrever no chão com o dedo.

7 Mas, como insistissem em perguntar-lhe, ergueu-se e disse-lhes: Aquele dentre vós que está sem pecado seja o primeiro que lhe atire uma pedra.

8 E, tornando a inclinar-se, escrevia na terra.

9 Quando ouviram isto foram saindo um a um, a começar pelos mais velhos, até os últimos; ficou só Jesus, e a mulher ali em pé.

10 Então, erguendo-se Jesus e não vendo a ninguém senão a mulher, perguntou-lhe: Mulher, onde estão aqueles teus acusadores? Ninguém te condenou?

11 Respondeu ela: Ninguém, Senhor. E disse-lhe Jesus: Nem eu te condeno; vai-te, e não peques mais.

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; you, therefore, what do you 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;'

8 and again having stooped down, he was writing on the ground,

9 and they having heard, and by the conscience being convicted, were going forth one by one, having begun from the elders -- unto the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

10 And Jesus having bent himself back, and having seen no one but the woman, said to her, 'Woman, where are those -- your accusers? did no one pass sentence upon you?'

11 and she said, 'No one, Sir;' and Jesus said to her, 'Neither do I pass sentence on you; be going on, and no more sin.'