As Written; part 2

Following on my previous post: there are methods of writing creatively which would seem to defy all attempts to preserve them... kind of! Gospel of John, chapter 8:

⁴ They say unto him, "Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.

⁵ ...what sayest thou?"

⁶ This they said, tempting him... But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.

⁷ So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her..."