Then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust.
He must take some holy water in a clay jar and pour into it dust he has taken from the Tabernacle floor.
They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!”
When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman.
