Day 21

Let the one among you without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.

John 8:7

Read it aloud. Then sit with it. Say nothing for five minutes.

What stone are you still holding?

The card is drawn on your own phone and never leaves it until you send it.

A note on the text: this passage is not in the earliest manuscripts

The account of the woman caught in adultery, John 7:53 to 8:11, is absent from the oldest surviving copies of John's Gospel, and in later copies it sometimes appears in another place, including once in Luke. Many scholars regard it as a genuine early memory of him that entered the written Gospel late. It is printed here on that judgement. This note is here because you are entitled to know the question exists.