These words spake Jesus in the treasury - a division, so called, of the fore court of the temple, part of the court of the women [Josephus, Antiquities, 19.6.2, etc.], which may confirm the genuineness of Joh 8:2-11, as the place where the woman was brought.
no man laid hands on him, etc. - (See on Joh 7:30). In the dialogue that follows, the conflict waxes sharper on both sides, till rising to its climax, they take up stones to stone him.