![]() ![]() The first to systematically apply the critical marks of the Alexandrian critics was Origen: History of textual criticism Codex Sangallensis 48 with the blanked space for the pericope John 7:53–8:11 The passage has been taken as confirmation of Jesus's ability to write, otherwise only suggested by implication in the Gospels, but the word ἔγραφεν ( egraphen) in John 8:8 could mean "draw" as well as "write". ![]() The English idiomatic phrase to " cast the first stone" is derived from this passage. Both "let him who is without sin, cast the first stone" and "go, and sin no more" have found their way into common usage. This episode and its message of mercy and forgiveness balanced with a call to holy living have endured in Christian thought. Go your way, and from now on do not sin again." 10 Jesus straightened up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" 11 She said, "No one, sir." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. 9 When they heard it, they went away, one by one, beginning with the elders and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. 7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her." 8 And once again he bent down and wrote on the ground. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. Now what do you say?" 6 They said this to test him, so that they might have some charge to bring against him. 5 Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. 3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and making her stand before all of them, 4 they said to him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. All the people came to him and he sat down and began to teach them. 2 Early in the morning he came again to the temple. Then each of them went home, 8:1 while Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. John 7:53–8:11 in the New Revised Standard Version reads as follows: The passage appears to have been included in some texts by the 4th century and became generally accepted by the 5th century. This has been the view of "most NT scholars, including most evangelical NT scholars, for well over a century" (written in 2009). Although it is included in most modern translations (one notable exception being the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures) it is typically noted as a later interpolation, as it is by Novum Testamentum Graece NA28. There is now a broad academic consensus that the passage is a later interpolation added after the earliest known manuscripts of the Gospel of John. Jesus says that he too does not condemn her and tells her to go and sin no more. ![]() Jesus asks the woman if anyone has condemned her and she answers no. The accusers and congregants depart, realizing not one of them is without sin either, leaving Jesus alone with the woman. Jesus begins to write something on the ground using his finger when the woman's accusers continue their challenge, he states that the one who is without sin is the one who should cast the first stone at her. They tell Jesus that the punishment for someone like her should be stoning, as prescribed by Mosaic Law. They bring in a woman, accusing her of committing adultery, claiming she was caught in the very act. A group of scribes and Pharisees confronts Jesus, interrupting his teaching. In the passage, Jesus was teaching in the Temple after coming from the Mount of Olives. Jesus and the woman taken in adultery (or the Pericope Adulterae) is a pseudepigraphical passage ( pericope) found in John 7:53– 8:11 of the New Testament. For other uses, see Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (disambiguation).Ĭhrist with the Woman Taken in Adultery, by Guercino, 1621 ( Dulwich Picture Gallery) Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, 1565 by Pieter Bruegel, oil on panel, 24 cm × 34 cm (9.4 in × 13.4 in) Christ and the woman taken in adultery, drawing by Rembrandt "Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery" redirects here. ![]()
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