Let he who is without sin cast the first stone...where?

Question

Where in the Bible soes he say that?

does anyone perhaps know a link to the exact quote and the surrounding story?

Answer 1

John 8:7  

www.biblegateway.com will let you read the story & look up the exact verse.  

The story starts at the end of chapter 7 & continues into the first part of chapter 8.  If you read the footnotes from the NIV version you will find that this particular story is not in all manuscripts.  Still, has to be one of my favorite stories.  I wonder what he drew in the sand!  One Speaker I heard thinks he wrote the names of the Pharisee's lovers!  I doubt it but still fun to think about.  I also like the version from the NIV best because it says "whoever is without THIS sin".

Answer 2

This is probably a bit more than you wanted, but is shows the before and after of this incident, and how the officials were trying to disgrace Jesus.

John 8

1But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

2At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them.

3The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group

4and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.

5In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?"

6They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.

   But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger.

7When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."

8Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

9At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there.

10Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"

11"No one, sir," she said.

      "Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."

12When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

13The Pharisees challenged him, "Here you are, appearing as your own witness; your testimony is not valid."

14Jesus answered, "Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid, for I know where I came from and where I am going. But you have no idea where I come from or where I am going.

15You judge by human standards; I pass judgment on no one.

16But if I do judge, my decisions are right, because I am not alone. I stand with the Father, who sent me.

17In your own Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid.

18I am one who testifies for myself; my other witness is the Father, who sent me."

19Then they asked him, "Where is your father?"

   "You do not know me or my Father," Jesus replied. "If you knew me, you would know my Father also." 20He spoke these words while teaching in the temple area near the place where the offerings were put. Yet no one seized him, because his time had not yet come.

21Once more Jesus said to them, "I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come."

22This made the Jews ask, "Will he kill himself? Is that why he says, 'Where I go, you cannot come'?"

23But he continued, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. 24I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am the one I claim to be,[a] you will indeed die in your sins."

25"Who are you?" they asked.

   "Just what I have been claiming all along," Jesus replied. 26"I have much to say in judgment of you. But he who sent me is reliable, and what I have heard from him I tell the world."

27They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.

28So Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am the one I claim to be and that I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me.

29The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him."

30Even as he spoke, many put their faith in him.

Answer 3

Jesus said that to the high priests, when they asked him weather they should kill the adulterian woman. By this he meant that they shouldnt judge her as they are all sinners.

John 8:2-11