of the Mount of Olives in John's Gospel, although it is also referred to in , "Jesus crossed the Kidron Valley with his disciples and entered a grove of olive trees". Jesus returns to the Temple early the next morning. Verse 1 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. The Mount of Olives is a hill running north to south about long, directly east of Jerusalem across the Kidron Valley; named for the large number of olive trees that grew on it. Verse 7 So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first." "He raised Himself up": or "He looked up" "Let him thrown a stone at her first" (KJV: "let him first cast a stone at her"): that is, as a witness to the sinful deed, one can first cast a stone at the guilty party, according to the law in which commands that "the hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people".<ref name=benson>Benson, Joseph. [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/benson/john/8.htm '’Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. John 8.] Accessed July 9, 2019.</ref> Verse 11She said, "No one, Lord."And Jesus said to her, "Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.""Go and": after these words, NU and M versions have "from now on". Authenticity There is dispute over the authenticity of the passage. It appears in the King James Version but modern English translations note that it is not present in the 'most reliable early manuscripts' of John, and therefore suggest that it is unlikely to have been part of the original text. H. W. Watkins notes that the Jewish "scribes" (verse 3) and not referred to elsewhere in this Gospel. Until recently, it was not thought that any Greek Church Father had taken note of the passage before the 12th century; but in 1941 a large collection of the writings of Didymus the Blind (ca. 313–398) was discovered in Egypt, including a reference to the pericope adulterae (in Didymus' commentary on Ecclesiastes:) as being found in "several copies", and it is now considered established that this passage was present in its usual place in some Greek manuscripts known in Alexandria and elsewhere from the 4th century onwards. In support of this it is noted that