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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - John 8:4 - 8:4
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woman ... in adultery ... Moses ... commanded ... should be stoned - simply put to death (Deu 22:22), but in aggravated cases, at least in later times, this was probably by stoning (Eze 16:40).
but what sayest thou - hoping, whatever He might answer, to put Him in the wrong: - if He said, Stone her, that would seem a stepping out of His province; if He forbade it, that would hold Him up as a relaxer of the public morals. But these cunning hypocrites were overmatched.