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New Living Translation (NLT)

John 7
⁴⁹ This foolish crowd follows him, but they are ignorant of the law. God’s curse is on them!”
⁵⁰ Then Nicodemus, the leader who had met with Jesus earlier, spoke up.
⁵¹ “Is it legal to convict a man before he is given a hearing?” he asked.
⁵² They replied, “Are you from Galilee, too? Search the Scriptures and see for yourself—no prophet ever comes from Galilee!” ---------- [The most ancient Greek manuscripts do not include John 7:53–8:11.]
⁵³ Then the meeting broke up, and everybody went home.
John 8
¹ Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives,
² but early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them.
³ As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd.
⁴ “Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of adultery.
⁵ The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?”
⁶ They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger.