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Joh 8:1-11. Ἰησοῦς δὲ-καὶ μηκέτι ἁμάρτανε) The wisdom and effectual power which Jesus evinced in the history of the adulteress are so great, that it is strange this remarkable portion of the Gospel history should be accounted by many in the present day as uncertain. It is also omitted in the Codex Ebnerianus, but only from verse 3; and at the end of the Gospel according to John it is so supplied, and attached to verse 2, that it is readily apparent, that the transcribers removed only from public reading this portion, which they acknowledged as genuine. In the book, Joh. Lami de Eruditione Apostolorum, describing the Florentine Greek manuscript of the four Evangelists, he says, ‘In the Gospel of John, Iambic verses were written in the end. There comes first an index of the nineteen chapters. The tenth chapter had been omitted, and, out of the regular order, in the front, there was recounted περὶ μοιχαλίδος, concerning the Adulteress, whose history is extant in the Gospel itself. The writing is of the twelfth century.’-P. 230.[217]-ἐπορεύθη, went) as one who had no home. Comp. ch. Joh 7:53, “Every man went unto his own house.”-εἰς τὸ ὄρος τῶν Ἐλαίων, to the mount of Olives) to that mountain, in which they were afterwards about to take Him; ch. Joh 18:2, “Judas also, which betrayed Him, knew the place; for Jesus oft-times resorted thither with His disciples;” whereas they had only made the attempt, but in vain, at ch. Joh 7:30.
[217] The passage is omitted by ABCT MSS. of the oldest class, LXΔ; by the Old Latin Cod. Vercellensis, the Peshito Syriac, the Memphitic, and Thebaic; by Origen and Chrysostom. D is the oldest MS. that has it; also the Old Latin Cod. Veronensis; the Vulgate; the Æthiopic.-E. and T.