John 8:1–11

Verse 1, and so forth [1] The last verse of the foregoing chapter, and the eleven verses that follow in this, are not found in the greater part of our present Greek copies, yet they are in some MSS. and so are retained in the Prot. translation. We read nothing of them in the commentaries of Saint John Chrysostom or S. Cyril; but S. Jerom (l. ii. con. Pelag. tom. 4, part 2, p. 521. Ed. Ben.) says, they were found in many both Lat. and Greek copies. Saint Ambrose (Ep. 52.) says this passage, of the woman taken in adultery, was always famous in the Church. Saint Augustine expounds them, tract. in Joan, and so forth Witham.

Verse 6. Wrote with his finger, as one that was musing about something else. Worthington.

Verse 7. We cannot with any propriety reprehend or condemn faults in others, if we ourselves be guilty of the same, or other great faults, S. Cyril, in Joan.—See annotations on Matthew 7, verse 1.

Verse 9. Went out one by one, [2] confounded, and as it is in the ordinary Greek copies, convicted by their own conscience. Witham.

Verse 11. Hence we may see how impious is the doctrine of those who say that God is the author of sin. Christ did not say to the woman: I do not condemn thy sin; or, go and live now as thou pleasest, I will free thee from all punishment due to any sin thou shalt commit: but he only said, Go, and from henceforth sin no more: thus preserving his amiable virtue of clemency, and still not encouraging vice. Saint Augustine

NU includes John 7:53–John 8:11, but puts brackets around it to indicate that the textual critics had less confidence that this was original.