1 mutta Jeesus meni Öljymäelle.

2 Varhain aamulla hän tuli taas temppeliin. Hänen luokseen kerääntyi ihmisiä suurin joukoin, ja hän istuutui ja opetti heitä.

3 Kesken kaiken toivat lainopettajat ja fariseukset paikalle naisen, joka oli joutunut kiinni aviorikoksesta. He asettivat hänet Jeesuksen eteen

6 He puhuivat näin pannakseen Jeesuksen koetukselle ja saadakseen sitten aiheen syyttää häntä. Mutta Jeesus kumartui ja kirjoitti sormellaan maahan.

8 Hän kumartui taas ja kirjoitti maahan.

9 Jeesuksen sanat kuultuaan he lähtivät pois yksi toisensa jälkeen, vanhimmat ensimmäisinä. Kansan keskelle jäi vain Jeesus ja nainen.

1 But Jesus went to the mount of Olives.

2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him; and he sat down and taught them.

3 And the scribes and the Pharisees bring {to him} a woman taken in adultery, and having set her in the midst,

4 they say to him, Teacher, this woman has been taken in the very act, committing adultery.

5 Now in the law Moses has commanded us to stone such; thou therefore, what sayest thou?

6 But this they said proving him, that they might have {something} to accuse him {of}. But Jesus, having stooped down, wrote with his finger on the ground.

7 But when they continued asking him, he lifted himself up and said to them, Let him that is without sin among you first cast the stone at her.

8 And again stooping down he wrote on the ground.

9 But they, having heard {that}, went out one by one beginning from the elder ones until the last; and Jesus was left alone and the woman standing there.

10 And Jesus, lifting himself up and seeing no one but the woman, said to her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? Has no one condemned thee?

11 And she said, No one, sir. And Jesus said to her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.