Gospel according to John

Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?

Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"

So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.

Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.

The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"

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

The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You aren't also led astray, are you?

Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

But this multitude that doesn't know the law is accursed."

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

"Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"

They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee."

Everyone went to his own house,

but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

At early dawn, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them.

The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the midst,

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

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

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.

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."