John 8:3

The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in the act of adultery. They placed her in the middle.

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In The King James Version

And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,

In Context

2Early in the morning he came to the temple again, and all the people came; he sat down and taught them.

4+ 8:4 See the note about John 7:53-8:11 above Then they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery.

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Cross References

Numbers 15:33Those who found him brought him to Moses, Aaron, and all the community.

Ezekiel 23:45But righteous men will pass judgment and punish them as adulteresses, and they will punish them with the sentence for those who shed blood, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.

John 9:13They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.

Romans 7:3So then, while her husband is living, if she lives with another man, she will be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so she is not an adulteress if she lives with another man.

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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