Jesu liv
The Woman Caught in Adultery
Scribes and Pharisees bring a woman caught in adultery before Jesus in the temple and ask if she should be stoned as the Law of Moses commands. Jesus bends down and writes with his finger on the ground, then says: 'Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.' One by one, the accusers leave, beginning with the elders. To the woman he says: 'Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.'
Johannesevangeliet 7,53-8,11
53Then each of them went to his own home.
⟦καὶ ἐπορεύθη ἕκαστος εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ·
1But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
Ἰησοῦς δὲ ἐπορεύθη εἰς τὸ ὄρος τῶν Ἐλαιῶν.
2At dawn he came again to the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down and began to teach them.
Ὄρθρου δὲ πάλιν παρεγένετο εἰς τὸ ἱερόν, καὶ πᾶς ὁ λαὸς ἤρχετο· καὶ καθίσας ἐδίδασκεν αὐτούς.
3Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand in front of everyone
ἄγουσιν δὲ οἱ γραμματεῖς καὶ οἱ Φαρισαῖοι πρὸς αὐτὸν γυναῖκα ἐν μοιχείᾳ καταλήφθεισαν· καὶ στήσαντες αὐτὴν ἐν μέσῳ,
4and said to him, to test him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of adultery.
λέγουσιν αὐτῷ, πειράζοντες· Διδάσκαλε, αὕτη ἡ γυνὴ κατελήφθη ἐπʼ αὐτοφόρῳ μοιχευομένη.
5In the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?"
ἐν δὲ τῷ νόμῳ Μωσῆς ἡμῖν ἐνετείλατο τὰς τοιαύτας λιθοβολεῖσθαι· σὺ οὖν τί λέγεις;
6They said this to trap him, so that they would have grounds to accuse him. But Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger in the dirt, paying them no attention.
τοῦτο δὲ ἔλεγον πειράζοντες αὐτόν, ἵνα ἔχωσιν κατηγορεῖν αὐτοῦ. ὁ δὲ Ἰησοῦς κάτω κύψας, τῷ δακτύλῳ ἔγραφεν εἰς τὴν γῆν, μὴ προσποιούμενος.
7When they kept pressing him, he straightened up and said to them, "Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her."
ὡς δὲ ἐπέμενον ἐρωτῶντες αὐτόν, ἀνακύψας εἶπεν πρὸς αὐτούς· Ὁ ἀναμάρτητος ὑμῶν, πρῶτον ἐπʼ αὐτὴν τὸν λίθον βαλέτω.
8And again he bent down and wrote in the dirt.
καὶ πάλιν κάτω κύψας ἔγραφεν εἰς τὴν γῆν.
9When they heard this, convicted by their own conscience, they went away one by one, beginning with the oldest. Jesus was left alone, with the woman still standing there.
οἱ δέ, ἀκούσαντες, καὶ ὑπὸ τῆς συνειδήσεως ἐλεγχόμενοι, ἐξήρχοντο εἷς καθʼ εἷς, ἀρξάμενοι ἀπὸ τῶν πρεσβυτέρων· καὶ κατελείφθη μόνος ὁ Ἰησοῦς, καὶ ἡ γυνὴ ἐν μέσῳ οὖσα.
10Jesus straightened up, and seeing no one but the woman, he said to her, "Where are they, those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?"
ἀνακύψας δὲ ὁ Ἰησοῦς, καὶ μηδένα θεασάμενος πλὴν τὴς γυναικός, εἶπεν αὐτῇ· Ποῦ εἰσιν ἐκεῖνοι οἱ κατήγοροί σου; Οὐδείς σε κατέκρινεν;
11"No one, sir," she said. Then Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go, and sin no more."
ἡ δὲ εἶπεν· Οὐδείς, κύριε. εἶπεν δὲ ὁ Ἰησοῦς· Οὐδὲ ἐγώ σε κρίνω· πορεύου καὶ μηκέτι ἁμάρτανε.⟧