Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned. The law said merely she should die (Deuteronomy 22:22), but in aggravated cases, at least in later times, this was probably by stoning (Ezekiel 16:40).
But what sayest thou? [ su (G4771) oun (G3767) ti (G5100) legeis (G3004)?] - 'what now sayest thou?'
Verse John 8:5. _THAT SUCH SHOULD BE STONED_] It is not strictly true that Moses ordered adultery in general to be punished by _stoning_. The law simply says that _the adulterer and the adulteress sh...
MOSES IN THE LAW ... - The punishment of adultery commanded by Moses was death, Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22. The particular manner of the death was not specified in the law. The Jews had themse...
CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The Woman Taken in Adultery. (John 8:1 .)_ 2. The Light of the World. (John 8:12 .) 3. His Testimony Concerning Himself and the Father. (John 8:13 .) 4. His Solemn Declarations. ...
PERICOPE ADULTERS. JOHN 7:53 TO JOHN 8:11. JESUS AND THE WOMAN ACCUSED OF SIN. The well-known story of the woman taken in adultery has no claim to be regarded as part of the original text of this gos...
MOSES COMMANDED SUCH SHOULD BE STONED. The Mosaic enactment is found in Deuteronomy 22:22, and Leviticus 20:10. It required stoning in the case of. betrothed virgin, and also made the infidelity of. w...
WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
And each of them went to his own house; but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning he was again in the Temple precincts, and all the people came to him. He sat down and went on teachi...
MOSES. See note on John 1:17. COMMANDED... STONED. This law referred only to. "betrothed damsel "(Deuteronomy 22:24); and to show that the Lord knew their thoughts, and knew also that this was another...
_Moses in the law_ Of the two texts given in the margin of our Bible, Leviticus 20:10 and Deuteronomy 22:22, probably neither is correct. It is often assumed that -put to death" in Jewish Law means st...
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
ΛΙΘΆΖΕΙΝ for λιθοβολεῖσθαι. 5. ἘΝ ΔῈ ΤΩ͂Ι ΝΌΜΩΙ. Of the two texts given in the margin of our Bible, Leviticus 20:10 and Deuteronomy 22:22, probably neither is correct. It is often assumed that ‘put to...
1–11. The number of various readings in this section is very large, and we have not the data for constructing a satisfactory text....
Ver. Jesus went to the mount of Olives. 2. And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him; and he sat down, and taught them. 3. And the Scribes and Pharisees br...
_GO AND SIN NO MORE -- JOHN 8:1-11:_ Jesus spent the night in Mount Olives. Early the next morning the people were waiting for Him in the Temple. He did not disappoint them. He came to the Temple, sat...
ΈΝΕΤΕΊΛΑΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΕΝΤΈΛΛΟΜΑΙ (G1781) повелевать, ΤΟΙΑΎΤΑΣ (G5108) такой, ΛΙΘΆΖΕΙΝ _praes. act. inf. от_ ΛΙΘΆΖΩ (G3034) побивать камнями. _Inf._ в косвенно) й речи. Человека могли...
NOW MOSES IN THE LAW COMMANDED— The law, Leviticus 20:10. Deuteronomy 22:22 required in the general, that adultery should be punished with death, but did not determine the kind of it: only because it...
See the chapter comments for John 8:1-59....
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 8:1-11 We begin with the customary Analysis:— In this series of expositions of John’s Gospel we have sedulously avoided technical matters, preferring to confine...
41 Ever since the days of Moses the nation of Israel has been waiting for the Prophet Who was to be like him, and lead the nation out of worse than Egyptian bondage into the heritage of the kingdom. T...
THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES CONTINUED. CHRIST THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD John 7:53 to John 8:11. The woman taken in adultery. All modern critics agree that this section is no original part of the Fourth Gosp...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 8 JESUS FORGIVES A WOMAN 8:1-11 V1 But Jesus walked to the place called the Hill of *Olives. V2 Early next morning, he...
NOW MOSES IN THE LAW COMMANDED US, THAT SUCH SHOULD BE STONED. — If we interpret the words strictly, the case they contemplate is not that referred to in Leviticus 20:10, and quoted here in the margin...
CHAPTER 17 THE WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY. “And they went every man unto his own house: but Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. And early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the peopl...
ἐν δὲ τῷ νομῷ … λιθοβολεῖσθαι. In Leviticus 20:10 and Deuteronomy 22:22 death is fixed as the penalty of adultery; but “stoning” as the form of death is only specified when a betrothed virgin is “viol...
THE ACCUSERS SELF-CONDEMNED John 8:1-11 This passage has been the subject of much controversy, but there is no possibility of accounting for it except on the supposition that this incident really to...
The end of chapter 7 is closely linked with this, in that after declaring "every man went to his own house," the writer said, "But Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives." Here we have the story of a re...
CHAPTER 3 THE ADULTEROUS WOMAN John 8:1-11. I merely insert this caption through courtesy to the English reader; but will be excused from the exposition, as this item is entirely absent from the orig...
VER. 5. Stoning was ordained by Moses only for the case of an unfaithful _betrothed virgin_ (Deu 22:23-24); for the adulterous _wife_, the kind of death was not determined (Lev 20:10). According to th...
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)...
The point at which we have arrived gives me an opportunity of saying a little on the beginning of this chapter, and the end of the last; for it is well known that many men, and, I am sorry to add, not...
In chapter 8, as we have said, the word of Jesus is rejected; and, in chapter 9, His works. But there is much more than that. The personal glories of chapter 1 are reproduced and developed in all thes...
NOW MOSES IN THE LAW COMMANDED US, THAT SUCH SHOULD, BE STONED,.... Not in Leviticus 20:10; for though according to the law there, an adulteress, one that was a married woman, and so an adulterer, tha...
Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? Ver. 5. _Such should be stoned_] Adultery was to be punished with death. Society and the purity of posterity could...
_Now Moses commanded that such should be stoned_ If they spoke accurately, this must have been a woman who, having been betrothed to a husband, had been guilty of this crime before the marriage was co...
MOSES IN THE LAW; LEVITICUS 20:10....
THE WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY. The arraignment of the guilty woman:...
NOW MOSES IN THE LAW COMMANDED US THAT SUCH SHOULD BE STONED; BUT WHAT SAYEST THOU?...
A WOMAN CAUGHT IN ADULTERY (vs.1-11) While others went to their homes, the Lord spent the night in the mount of Olives, away from all the words and thoughts of men, in the calm of His Father's prese...
1-11 Christ neither found fault with the law, nor excused the prisoner's guilt; nor did he countenance the pretended zeal of the Pharisees. Those are self-condemned who judge others, and yet do the s...
Moses in the law, LEVITICUS 20:10, commanded that such malefactors should be put to death; but we read of no law commanding this kind of death. And their rule was, that when the law had set no kind of...
John 8:5 Now G1161 Moses G3475 in G1722 law G3551 commanded G1781 (G5662) us G2254 such G5108 stoned...
“Teacher, this woman has been caught in the very act of adultery. Now Moses in the law commanded us to stone women like this, but what do you say about her?” And this they said, testing him, that they...
The almost unanimous voice of modem criticism pronounces the narrative before us to be no genuine part of the Gospel of John. The section is wanting in the oldest and most trustworthy MSS. of the Gosp...
John 8:5. NOW IN THE LAW MOSES COMMANDED TO STONE SUCH: WHAT THEREFORE SAYEST THOU CONCERNING HER? The words ‘concerning her,' which do not occur in the Authorised Version, but which the best authorit...
COMMANDED (ενετειλατο). First aorist middle indicative of εντελλω, old verb to enjoin (Matthew 4:6).TO STONE SUCH (τας τοιαυτας λιθαζειν). Present active infinitive of λιθαζω (from λιθος), from Ar...
John 7:53. _And every man went unto his own house_. John 8:1. _Jesus went unto the mount of Olives._ That is, as every man went to his own house to rest, so Jesus found rest in secret prayer on the...
CONTENTS: The woman taken in adultery. Discourse after the feast on Jesus as Light of the world. Satan, the original liar and murderer, and the Satanic brotherhood. CHARACTERS: Jesus, adulterous woma...
John 8:1. _Jesus went to the mount of Olives,_ where it is probable he slept in some booth in the gardens; and returned early to the temple, to preach to the people, before the commencement of public...
TEACHER. They call him this, but they do not mean it. THIS WOMAN WAS CAUGHT IN THE VERY ACT. These men were acting as private individuals, and came to Jesus claiming to be so shocked by this woman's c...
_And the Scribes and the Pharisees brought unto Him a woman taken in adultery_ THE SCENE AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE It is probable that the hilarity and abandonment of the feast, which had grown to be a k...
1-59 CHAPTER 8 VER. 1. _But Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives._ On the last day of the Feast Jesus had taught in the temple, and confuted the Pharisees, while they, after their wont, returned home t...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 7:1. For the general exposition of this section see Homiletic Notes, pp. 233–235. John 7:2. EARLY IN THE MORNING (ὄρθρου).—St. John’s usual word is πρωῒ (John 20...
EXPOSITION Verses 7:53-8:11 (8) _The pericope adulterae. _(A)_ Excursus on the genuineness of _John 7:53-43__John 7:53-43. It is our duty to examine the various grounds on which this passage has been...
Now Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives. And early in the morning he came again to the temple (John 8:1-2), Now the feast is over, but Jesus is returning to the temple on the next day. and all of th...
Deuteronomy 22:21; Ezekiel 16:38; Ezekiel 23:47; Leviticus 20:10;...
Moses hath commanded us to stone such — If they spoke accurately, this must have been a woman, who, having been betrothed to a husband, had been guilty of this crime before the marriage was completed;...
(CF. ROMANS 13:4)— Did Jesus repudiate capital punishment in this text? PROBLEM: Passages like Romans 13:4 present a good case for capital punishment, for the passage says, “for it [the government] do...