On stone throwing

Another great pair from Laudator Temporis Acti:

John 8.3-7:
[3] And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, [4] They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. [5] Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? [6] This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse 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.

Diogenes Laertius 6.62:
Seeing the child of a courtesan throw stones at a crowd, he cried out, "Take care you don't hit your father."

Related thoughts on the former from Chapter Ten of Richard Mitchell's Gift of Fire.