John 8:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin - not meaning 'sinless altogether;' nor yet 'guiltless of a literal breach of the Seventh Commandment;' but probably, 'He whose conscience acquits him of any such sin,'

Let him first cast a stone, х ton (G3588) lithon (G3037)] - rather, 'the stone,' referred to in the Mosaic statute, Deuteronomy 17:11.

John 8:7

7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them,He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.