A ring of Pharisees and one of them was me   We loved the letter but not the spirit   An infidelity, a woman on her knees   She begged for mercy, we couldn’t hear it      The teacher looked from us, his finger in the dust   We felt the chill and it shook us to our bones   Then he raised his head and this is what he said,   “The one who has not sin should throw a stone”      I walked away in silence and threw myself upon the ground   These words they burned inside me take up your cross before your crown      Go and judge not, lest ye be judged      I walked away in silence and threw myself upon the ground   These words they burned inside me take up your cross before your crown      Take up your cross before your crown, judge not