John
Chapter 8
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And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her."
Pridie Roxy's Note
May 11
Pulpit Commentary: "He rose, when the appearance of indifference could not be maintained, and at once arrested the outbreak of their unscrupulous fury without presuming to repudiate the letter of the Law. He lifted the discussion from the judicial to the moral sphere. He does not mean that none but the sinless can condemn, or pronounce verdict upon the guilty; but he calls for special freedom from similar offence on the part of any man who should wish or dare to display his own purity by taking part in the execution"