Which of you is without sin?
Let him come and cast the first stone." Unwillingly they let their arms fall, and those who already held stones in their hands dropped them quietly on to the ground.

But Jesus turned to the persecuted woman and said: "They shall not harm you.

Tell me what has happened." "Lord!" she whimpered, and clasped His feet afresh, "I have sinned! I have sinned!" and she sobbed and wept so that His feet were damp with her tears.
"You have sinned!" He said in a voice, the gentle sound of which went to many a heart--"sinned.

And now you are sorry.

And you do not try to vindicate yourself.