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John 8:1-6
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A Woman Caught in Adultery
1 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
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Now early in the morning he came again to the temple [courts]. And all the people were coming, and he sat down [and] began to teach them.
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Now the scribes and the Pharisees brought to him a woman caught in adultery. And standing her in [their] midst,
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they said to him, testing [him], "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery!
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Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?"
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(Now they were saying this to test him, so that they would have [an occasion] to bring charges against him.) But Jesus, bending down, began to write with [his] finger on the ground, taking no notice.
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- [a]. *Here "[courts]" is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself
- [b]. Some manuscripts have "were coming to him"
- [c]. *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("sat down") has been translated as a finite verb
- [d]. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to teach")
- [e]. Some manuscripts have "brought a woman"
- [f]. Some manuscripts omit "testing [him]"
- [g]. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
- [h]. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to write")
- [i]. *Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
- [j]. Some manuscripts omit "taking no notice"
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