John 8:5 BSB — MannaFest

John 8:5

In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such a woman. So what do You say?”

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ASV

Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such: what then sayest thou of her?

KJV

Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?

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Commentary

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Eusebius of Caesarea

Church History (Book III), Chapter 39, Section 16 (339)

And he [Papias] relates another story of a woman, who was accused of many sins before the Lord, which is contained in the Gospel according to the Hebrews. These things we have thought it necessary to observe in addition to what has been already stated.

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The Church Fathers1 voice

Jerome

Against the Pelagians 2.17 (420)

The Scribes and Pharisees kept accusing her and kept earnestly pressing the case, for they wished to stone her to death, according to the law. "But Jesus, stooping down, began to write with his finger on the ground," the sins, to be sure, of those who were making the accusation, as well as the sins of all mortal beings according to what is written in the prophet, "Those who depart from you shall be written in the earth."

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

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; for such only Moses commanded to be stoned. He commanded indeed that other adulteresses should be put to death; but the manner of death was not specified.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Moses in the law ... - The punishment of adultery commanded by Moses was death, Lev 20:10; Deu 22:22. The particular manner of the death was not specified in the law. The Jews had themselves, in the time of Christ, determined that it should be by stoning. See this described in the notes at Mat 21:35, Mat 21:44. The punishment for adultery varied. In some cases it was strangling. In the time of Ezekiel Eze 16:38-40 it was stoning and being thrust through with a sword.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: John (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1869)

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 5:17
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.
leads to
- Romans 10:4
  For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.
- Luke 16:17
  But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for a single stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.
- Galatians 4:4–5
  But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
- Romans 8:4
  so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
- Romans 3:31
  Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.
Through
Leviticus 20:10
If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.
leads to
- John 8:4–5
  and said, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.
- Deuteronomy 22:22–24
  If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
- Deuteronomy 5:18
  You shall not commit adultery.

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Where the connections lead

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06About John

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About John