John 8:1-11, pericope adulteræ
an original translation in English verse from the Greek
(Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Græce 27)
[glosses not found in the Greek manuscripts in italics]
1But Jesus went against the olives’ mount,an original translation in English verse from the Greek
(Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Græce 27)
[glosses not found in the Greek manuscripts in italics]
2yet— earliest of mornings— turned again:
he came against the sanctuary mount
and all the people came to him and, in
the dust, he sat and taught them. 3And they brought—
(the experts and the leaders did—) some wife
whose active infidelity’d been caught
and stood her in their midst to stand for life.
4They said to him, “O Teacher! This one here—
this woman— this we caught surprisingly
while wrapped in her adultery; 5and we’re
ordained to reign as rock on such as she—
by Moses, in the law— to stone to death.
So what are you ordaining with your breath?”
6And this they said attempting to indict
him, that their hands might hold him. But he turned
one finger down, upon the ground to write
7and— as they kept persisting, as they spurned
him for response— he rose aright, replied
to them, “Your sinless one is one to throw
a stone on her,”— 8and, turning down, applied
again to underwrite the earth. 9And so
accused, they all were fading— each in flight
behind his elder. Jesus— left alone
before the woman— 10rose aright, replied,
“Where are they, ma’am? Has no one thrown a stone?”
11She answered, “No one, sir.”— and Jesus, “Nor
do I condemn you; suffer sin no more.”
