John 8:3-7

The Woman Caught in Adultery

3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst 4 they said to him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. 5 Now d in the Law Moses commanded us e to stone such women. So what do you say?" 6 This they said f to test him, g that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. 7 And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, h "Let him who is without sin among you i be the first to throw a stone at her."

  1. Cross References
    Leviticus 20:10
    If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
    Deuteronomy 22:22
    If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.
  2. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 22:24
    Then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
    Ezekiel 16:38
    And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
    Ezekiel 16:40
    They shall bring up a crowd against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.
  3. Cross References
    Matthew 16:1
    And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to te...
    Matthew 19:3
    And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by ...
    Matthew 22:18
    But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, "Why pu...
    Matthew 22:35
    And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question...
    Mark 8:11
    The Pharisees came and began to argue with him,...
    Mark 10:2
    And Pharisees came up and in order to test him ...
    Mark 12:15
    But, knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, ...
    Luke 10:25
    And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the...
    Luke 11:16
    While others, to test him, kept seeking from hi...
  4. Cross References
    Luke 11:54
    Lying in wait for him, to catch him in something he might say.
  5. Cross References
    Romans 2:1
    Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
    Romans 2:22
    You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
  6. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 17:7
    The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
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