John 8:5
Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
KJV
μωϋσης δε εν τω νομω εκελευσεν τας τοιαυτας λιθαζειν· συ δε νυν τι λεγεις; ἐν δὲ τῷ νόμῳ Μωϋσῆς ἡμῖν ἐνετείλατο τὰς τοιαύτας λιθοβολεῖσθαι· σὺ οὖν τί λέγεις;
Greek NT
In lege autem Moyses mandavit nobis hujusmodi lapidare. Tu ergo quid dicis ?
Vulgate
Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such: what then sayest thou of her?
ASV
Now Moses in the law commanded us to stone such a one. But what sayest thou?
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Μωσεύς
moseus
noun · 81×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
κελεύω
keleuo
verb · 26×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
λιθάζω
lithazo
verb · 9×
λιθοβολέω
lithoboleo
verb · 8×
νόμος
nomos
noun · 196×
νῦν
nun
adverb · 147×
οὖν
oun
conjunction · 489×
σύ
su
pronoun · 1071×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
τοιοῦτος
toioutos
demonstrative · 57×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἐντέλλομαι
entellomai
verb · 16×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
major
The Pericope Adulterae (the woman caught in adultery). This passage is absent from all early Greek papyri and the oldest uncial manuscripts. Its vocabulary and style differ from the rest of John. Many scholars believe it is an authentic tradition about Jesus that was inserted into John at a later date. Some manuscripts place it after John 21:25, after Luke 21:38, or after John 7:36.
- John 7:52 flows directly into John 8:12 without this passage. — P66; P75; Codex Sinaiticus (01/ℵ); Codex Vaticanus (03/B); Codex Alexandrinus (02/A); Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (04/C); Codex Washingtonianus (032/W); Many Old Latin MSS; Oldest Syriac MSS
- Ἐπορεύθησαν ἕκαστος εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ... — Codex Bezae (05/D); Majority of Byzantine MSS (from 9th century onward); Vulgate; Didascalia Apostolorum
- Same passage relocated to the end of John's Gospel. — Family 1 (f¹); Minuscule 1; Minuscule 1582
- Same passage relocated to Luke's Gospel after Jesus' teaching in the temple. — Family 13 (f¹³); Minuscule 13; Minuscule 69
source: curated
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Deut 22:21 — Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in
- Ezek 16:38 — And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.
- Lev 20:10 — And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
- Matt 5:17 — Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
- Matt 5:17 — Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
- Matt 19:6 — Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
- Matt 22:16 — And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not