(40)Some of the multitude therefore, hearing the words, said: Of a truth this is the Prophet. (41)Others said: This is the Christ. But some said: Does the Christ then come out of Galilee? (42)Did not the Scripture say, that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was? (43)A division therefore arose among the multitude because of him. (44)And some of them desired to seize him; but no one laid hands on him. (45)The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them: Why did ye not bring him? (46)The officers answered: Never man spoke like this man[7:47]. (47)The Pharisees answered them: Are ye also led astray? (48)Did any of the rulers believe on him, or of the Pharisees? (49)But this multitude, that know not the law, are accursed. (50)Nicodemus says to them (he who came to him by night, being one of them): (51)Does our law judge a man, except it first hear from him, and know what he does? (52)They answered and said to him: Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and see, that out of Galilee arises no prophet[7:52]. (53)[7:53][And each one went to his house. VIII. JESUS went to the mount of the Olives. (2)And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him; and having sat down, he was teaching them. (3)And the scribes and the Pharisees bring to him a woman taken in adultery; and having placed her in the midst, (4)they say to him: Teacher, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act: (5)Now in the law Moses commanded us, that such should be stoned; what then dost thou say? (6)This they said, tempting him, that they might have whereof to accuse him. But Jesus, having stooped down, was writing with his finger in the ground. (7)And as they continued asking him, raising himself up, he said to them: He that is without sin among you, let him first cast the stone at her. (8)And again stooping down, he wrote in the ground. (9)And they hearing it, and being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, unto the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. (10)And Jesus raising himself up, and seeing none but the woman, said to her: Woman, where are they, thine accusers? Did no one condemn thee? (11)She said: No one, Lord. And Jesus said to her: Neither do I condemn thee; go, and sin no more.]