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3. Jesus: He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

The priest condemns himself. Note exactly who it is standing between the woman caught in adultery and her accusers, such as this priest.



From John 8 : 7, here is the Wikipedia entry:

The parable, and its messages of not being quick to condemn when one is not blameless and tempering justice with mercy, have endured in Christian thought. Both "he that is without sin, cast the first stone"[6] and "go, and sin no more"[7] have found their way into common usage.

The English idiomatic phrase to "cast the first stone" is derived from this passage.[8] The subject was fairly common in art, especially from the Renaissance onwards; Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery by Pieter Bruegel is a famous example. There was a medieval tradition, originating in a comment attributed to Ambrose, that the words written were terra terram accusat ("earth accuses earth&quot , which is shown in some depictions in art, for example the Codex Egberti. There have also been other suggestions as to what was written.[9] To some Christians not concerned with textual disputes, the passage has been taken as confirmation of the literacy of Jesus, otherwise only suggested by implication in the Gospels, but the word "εγραφεν" in 8:8 could mean "draw" as well as "write".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_and_the_woman_taken_in_adultery