1 E GESÙ se ne andò al monte degli Ulivi.

2 E in sul far del giorno, venne di nuovo nel tempio, e tutto il popolo venne a lui; ed egli, postosi a sedere, li ammaestrava.

3 Allora i Farisei, e gli Scribi, gli menarono una donna, ch’era stata colta in adulterio; e fattala star in piè ivi in mezzo,

4 dissero a Gesù: Maestro, questa donna è stata trovata in sul fatto, commettendo adulterio.

5 Or Mosè ci ha comandato nella legge, che cotali si lapidino; tu adunque, che ne dici?

6 Or dicevano questo, tentandolo, per poterlo accusare. Ma Gesù chinatosi in giù, scriveva col dito in terra.

7 E come essi continuavano a domandarlo, egli, rizzatosi, disse loro: Colui di voi ch’è senza peccato getti il primo la pietra contro a lei.

8 E chinatosi di nuovo in giù, scriveva in terra.

9 Ed essi, udito ciò, e convinti dalla coscienza, ad uno ad uno se ne uscirono fuori, cominciando da’ più vecchi infino agli ultimi; e Gesù fu lasciato solo con la donna, che era ivi in mezzo.

10 E Gesù, rizzatosi, e non veggendo alcuno, se non la donna, le disse: Donna, ove sono que’ tuoi accusatori? niuno t’ha egli condannata?

11 Ed ella disse: Niuno, Signore. E Gesù le disse: Io ancora non ti condanno; vattene, e da ora innanzi non peccar più

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; thou, therefore, what dost thou 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 -- thine accusers? did no one pass sentence upon thee?

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