John 8:3
and the scribes and the Pharisees bring to Him a woman having been taken in adultery, and having set her in the midst,
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
2and all the people were coming to Him, and having sat down, He was teaching them;
4they say to Him, “Teacher, this woman was taken in the very crime [of] committing adultery,
Cross References
Numbers 15:33and those finding him gathering wood bring him near to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation,
Ezekiel 23:45As for righteous men, they judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, || And the judgment of women shedding blood, || For they [are] adulteresses, || And blood [is] in their hands.
John 9:13They bring him who once [was] blind to the Pharisees,
Romans 7:3so then, the husband being alive, she will be called an adulteress if she may become another man’s; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man’s.
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 →