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jerrab » 19 Apr 2025, 6:29 pm » wrote: ↑

19 Apr 2025, 6:29 pm

john 81 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 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.But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin 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. 10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”11 “No one, sir,” she said.

I heard it differenty. The Catholic version has it that immediately after Jesus spoke those words, an enormous stone whizzed past him and struck the adulteress in the face, killing her. Then Jesus walked through the crowd, looking for the perpetrator, and finding that person, said unto her, "Mom, why you gotta hassle me at work?"