So they answered Jesus and said, "We do not know." And He said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.

They were afraid, they answered no longer; they gave up their speaking.

I waited, (for I had not spoken) because they stood still, and they did not speak.

Why did I come, and there was no man? [Why] did I call, and there was none to hearken? Is not My hand strong to redeem? Or can I not deliver? Behold, by My rebuke I will dry up the sea, and make rivers a wilderness; and their fish shall be dried up because there is no water, and shall die of thirst.

The Lord, [even] God, gives me the tongue of instruction, to know when it is fit to speak a word; He has appointed for me early, He has given me an ear to hear;

I gave my back to scourges, and my cheeks to blows; and I turned not away my face from the shame of spitting;

for He that has justified me draws near. Who is he that pleads with me? Let him stand up against me at the same time; yea, who is he that pleads with me? Let him draw near to me.

And when He said these things, all His adversaries were put to shame; and all the crowd was rejoicing over all the glorious things which were done by Him.

And they were not able to answer Him regarding these things.

And while they were continuing questioning Him, rising up, He said unto them, "He who is without sin among you, let him [be the] first to cast a stone at her."

And those who heard [it] began to go out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman being in the midst.

But because they saw standing with them the man who had been healed, they had nothing to say against [them].

Now when Jesus saw that he answered intelligently, He said to him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." And no one dared any longer to question Him.

But after that they dared not question Him anymore.