John.7.45

That's when the Temple police reported back to the high priests and Pharisees, who demanded, "Why didn't you bring him with you?"

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Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why didn't you bring him in?"

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Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, "Why have you not brought Him?"

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The Temple guards who had been sent to arrest him returned to the leading priests and Pharisees. "Why didn't you bring him in?" they demanded.

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The police answered, "Have you heard the way he talks? We've never heard anyone speak like this man."

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"No one ever spoke the way this man does," the guards declared.

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The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this Man!"

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"We have never heard anyone talk like this!" the guards responded.

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The Pharisees said, "Are you carried away like the rest of the rabble?

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"You mean he has deceived you also?" the Pharisees retorted.

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Then the Pharisees answered them, "Are you also deceived?

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"Have you been led astray, too?" the Pharisees mocked.

John.7.48

You don't see any of the leaders believing in him, do you? Or any from the Pharisees?

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"Has any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him?

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Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him?

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"Is there a single one of us rulers or Pharisees who believes in him?

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It's only this crowd, ignorant of God's Law, that is taken in by him--and damned."

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No! But this mob that knows nothing of the law--there is a curse on them."

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But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed."

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These ignorant crowds do, but what do they know about it? A curse on them anyway!"

John.7.50

Nicodemus, the man who had come to Jesus earlier and was both a ruler and a Pharisee, spoke up.

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Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who was one of their own number, asked,

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Nicodemus (he who came to Jesus by night, being one of them) said to them,

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Nicodemus, the leader who had met with Jesus earlier, then spoke up.

John.7.51

"Does our Law decide about a man's guilt without first listening to him and finding out what he is doing?"

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"Does our law condemn anyone without first hearing him to find out what he is doing?"

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"Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?"

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"Is it legal to convict a man before he is given a hearing?" he asked.

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But they cut him off. "Are you also campaigning for the Galilean?

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They replied, "Are you from Galilee, too? Look into it, and you will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee."

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They answered and said to him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search and look, for no prophet has arisen out of Galilee."

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They replied, "Are you from Galilee, too? Search the Scriptures and see for yourself--no prophet ever comes from Galilee!"

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Examine the evidence. See if any prophet ever comes from Galilee." Then they all went home.

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Then each went to his own home.

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And everyone went to his own house.

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Then the meeting broke up and everybody went home.

John.8.1

Jesus went across to Mount Olives,

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But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

John.8.1

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

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Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives,

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but he was soon back in the Temple again. Swarms of people came to him. He sat down and taught them.

John.8.2

At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them.

John.8.2

Now early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and taught them.

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but early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them.

John.8.3

The religion scholars and Pharisees led in a woman who had been caught in an act of adultery. They stood her in plain sight of everyone

John.8.3

The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group

John.8.3

Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst,

John.8.3

As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and Pharisees brought a woman they had caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd.

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and said, "Teacher, this woman was caught red-handed in the act of adultery.

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

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they said to Him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act.

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

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Moses, in the Law, gives orders to stone such persons. What do you say?"

John.8.5

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

John.8.5

Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?"

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The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?"

John.8.6

They were trying to trap him into saying something incriminating so they could bring charges against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger in the dirt.

John.8.6

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

John.8.6

This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear.

John.8.6

They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger.

John.8.7

They kept at him, badgering him. He straightened up and said, "The sinless one among you, go first: Throw the stone."

John.8.7

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."

John.8.7

So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first."

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They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, "All right, stone her. But let those who have never sinned throw the first stones!"

John.8.8

Bending down again, he wrote some more in the dirt.

John.8.8

Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

John.8.8

And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground.

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Then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust.

John.8.9

Hearing that, they walked away, one after another, beginning with the oldest. The woman was left alone.

John.8.9

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.8.9

Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

John.8.9

When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman.

John.8.10

Jesus stood up and spoke to her. "Woman, where are they? Does no one condemn you?"

John.8.10

Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"

John.8.10

When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, "Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?"

John.8.10

Then Jesus stood up again and said to her, "Where are your accusers? Didn't even one of them condemn you?"

John.8.11

"No one, Master.Neither do I," said Jesus. "Go on your way. From now on, don't sin."

John.8.11

"No one, sir," she said. "Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."

John.8.11

She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said to her, "Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more."

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"No, Lord," she said. And Jesus said, "Neither do I. Go and sin no more."