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.|


In Context

4 they told him, |Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act.

5 Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such. What then do you say about her?|

6 They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger.

7 But 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.|

8 Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.

9 They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.

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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:7But 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."

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 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.