7But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."


In Context

4 and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.

5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?"

6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.

7 But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."

8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

9 At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there.

John 8:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:7So 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:7When therefore they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said to them: He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:7But 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:7But 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:7But 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:7So when they continued asking him, he raised himself, and said to them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:7But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, |He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:7and 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;'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:7So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said to them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.