When they continued to question Him, He straightened up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to cast a stone at her.”
Christ was hunted out of the city, yet back He came at dawn to His work in the temple. He lodged outside Jerusalem because His enemies had houses and He had not so much as a borrowed bed; prudent withdrawal at night does not excuse absence from duty by day. A constant preacher, in season and out of season.
AI summary
Commenting on John 8:1-11
Verse 7. They continued asking him. They pressed the question upon him. They were determined to extort an answer from him, and showed a perseverance in evil which has been unhappily often imitated. Is without sin. That is, without this particular sin; he who has not himself been guilty of this very crime--for in this place the connection evidently demands this meaning. 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 among you, let him first cast a stone at her. (2) Against hypocrites who are very severe judges against other men, and flatter themselves while they are sinning.