John 8:2

and all the people were coming to Him, and having sat down, He was teaching them;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

1And at dawn He came again to the temple [courts],

3and the scribes and the Pharisees bring to Him a woman having been taken in adultery, and having set her in the midst,

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 9:10All that your hand finds to do, with your power do, for there is no work, and plan, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol to where you are going.

Jeremiah 44:4And I send to you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying, Please do not do this abomination that I have hated—

Matthew 26:55In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, “Did you come forth as against a robber, with swords and sticks, to take Me? Daily I was with you sitting, teaching in the temple, and you did not lay hold on Me;

Luke 5:3and having entered into one of the boats, that was Simon’s, He asked him to put back a little from the land, and having sat down, was teaching the multitudes out of the boat.

John 4:34Jesus says to them, “My food is that I may do the will of Him who sent Me, and may finish His work;

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 →

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