1 Jesus, no entanto, foi para o monte das Oliveiras. 2 De madrugada, voltou novamente para o templo, e todo o povo se reuniu em volta dele; e Jesus, assentado, os ensinava. 3 Então os escribas e fariseus trouxeram à presença dele uma mulher surpreendida em adultério e, fazendo-a ficar em pé no meio de todos, 4 disseram a Jesus:

— Mestre, esta mulher foi surpreendida em flagrante adultério. 5 Na Lei, Moisés nos ordenou que tais mulheres sejam apedrejadas. E o senhor, o que tem a dizer?

6 Eles diziam isso tentando-o, para terem de que o acusar. Mas Jesus, inclinando-se, escrevia na terra com o dedo. 7 Como eles insistiam na pergunta, Jesus se levantou e lhes disse:

— Quem de vocês estiver sem pecado seja o primeiro a atirar uma pedra nela.

8 E, inclinando-se novamente, continuou a escrever no chão. 9 Mas eles, ouvindo essa resposta, foram saindo um por um, a começar pelos mais velhos até os últimos, ficando só Jesus e a mulher em pé diante dele. 10 Levantando-se, Jesus perguntou a ela:

— Mulher, onde estão eles? Ninguém condenou você?

11 Ela respondeu:

— Ninguém, Senhor!

Então Jesus disse:

— Também eu não a condeno; vá e não peque mais.

1 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 Pharisees brought to him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the middle,

4 They say to him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.

5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what say you?

6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.

7 So 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.

8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.

9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the oldest, even to the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the middle.

10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said to her, Woman, where are those your accusers? has no man condemned you?

11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said to her, Neither do I condemn you: go, and sin no more.