8:11a

No one: The pronoun No one indicates that none of the men who accused the woman had remained to condemn and punish her. Translate this in a way that is a natural response to the question in 8:10c. For example:

None of them
-or-
No (Contemporary English Version)
-or-
Yes, that is so.
-or-
No one has condemned me.

Lord: The Greek word that the Berean Standard Bible translates literally as Lord was a polite way to address a man. See 5:7a, where the same word is used, although the Berean Standard Bible translates it as “Sir.” Place this word in the sentence where it is natural in your language.

8:11b

Then neither do I condemn you: This clause indicates that Jesus refused to condemn the woman to death. He did not say that the woman had not sinned, but neither did he say that she should die. It is implied that he forgave her instead.

8:11c

Now go: This verb phrase is a command that gave permission to the woman to leave and go home. She was free to go. Here is another way to translate this phrase:

You may go

and sin no more: The clause that the Berean Standard Bible translates as sin no more means “stop sinning.” It implies that the woman was in fact guilty of the sin that they accused her of. However, it does not imply that she had sinned in this way regularly or as a habit.

Here are other ways to translate this clause:

don’t sin anymore (Contemporary English Version)
-or-
do not sin again (New Revised Standard Version)

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