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John 8:4-6
Lexham English Bible

4 they said to him, testing him,[a] “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery! 5 Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” 6 (Now they were saying this to test him, so that they would have an occasion[b] to bring charges against him.) But Jesus, bending down, began to write[c] with his[d] finger on the ground, taking no notice.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. John 8:4 Some manuscripts omit “testing him”
  2. John 8:6 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. John 8:6 The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to write”)
  4. John 8:6 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  5. John 8:6 Some manuscripts omit “taking no notice”
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