John 8:9
But they hearing this, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest. And Jesus alone remained, and the woman standing in the midst.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
In Context
8And again stooping down, he wrote on the ground.
Cross References
Genesis 42:21And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is this affliction come upon us.
1 Kings 17:18And she said to Elias: What have I to do with thee, thou man of God? art thou come to me, that my iniquities should be remembered, and that thou shouldst kill my son?
Job 20:5That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.
Psalms 9:15Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death, that I may declare all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion. Break thou the arm of the sinner and of the malignant: his sin shall be sought, and shall not be found.
Psalms 50:21Then shalt thou accept the sacrifice of justice, oblations and whole burnt offerings: then shall they lay calves upon thy altar.
Ecclesiastes 7:22But do not apply thy heart to all words that are spoken: lest perhaps thou hear thy servant reviling thee.
Matthew Henry on John 8:2-12
The Woman Taken in Adultery. 1 Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. 2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them. 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… Read the whole commentary →