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ANECDOTE

AN ADULTERESS WAS BROUGHT BEFORE CHRIST FOR JUDGMENT.
AFTER WRITING SOMETHING ON THE GROUND, HE SAID, "LET
HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN THROW THE FIRST STONE." HARDLY
HAD HE FINISHED SPEAKING, WHEN A STONE HIT THE WOMAN.
SIGHING, JESUS LOOKED UP AND SAID, "MOTHER, DID YOU
HAVE TO?"

Submitter comment: FATHER TRENT, THEN OF ST. ALPHONSUS PARISH, TOLD THIS
ONE.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Subject headings: PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote

Date learned: 09-21-1967

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