John 8:5
Now in our Torah ·Teaching·, Moses [Drawn out] enjoined us that such a woman be stoned to death. + 8:5. (4-5) Selectively Quoted from Lev 20:10; Deut 22:21 + 8:5 Context: Death is the punishment for adultery according to Torah ·Teaching·, but this quote is missing the fact that both the man and woman are to be punished for adultery (Lev 20:10). The woman only is to be stoned if she is recently married but found to be not a virgin (Deut 22:21). What then do you say about her?”
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In The King James Version
Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 22:21then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death + 22:21. Selectively Quoted in John 8:4-5 with Lev 20:10 + 22:21 Context of John 8:5 with stones, because she has done folly in Israel [God prevails], to play the prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from among you. + 22:21. Quoted in 1 Cor 5:13
Matthew 19:6So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”
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 →