John 8:3 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³ Some experts in the Law of Moses and Pharisees brought [to Him] a woman who had been caught committing an immoral sexual act and stood her in the middle of the group.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ When the scribes and Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery. They made her stand in the middle of the court and put the case before Him.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And the scribes and the Pharisees bring a woman taken in adultery; and having set her in the midst,

Common English Bible

³ The legal experts and Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery. Placing her in the center of the group,

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Now the scribes and Pharisees brought forward a woman caught in adultery, and they stood her in front of them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And the scribes and the Pharisees bring unto him a woman taken in adultery: and they set her in the midst,

John 8:3 Cross References

Matthew 2:4

So, he gathered all the leading priests and experts in the Law of Moses from among the people and asked them where the Christ [child] was to be born.

John 8:2

Then early [the next] morning Jesus went into the Temple again. All the people gathered around Him and He sat down and began teaching them.

John 8:4

They said to Jesus, “This woman was caught in the very act of sexual immorality.

John 8:9

And when they heard [what He had said], they [all] left, one at a time, beginning with the oldest men. So, Jesus was left alone with the woman [still standing] there where she was.

John 9:13

[So], they brought the man, who had been blind, to the Pharisees.

Acts 4:7

And when these men had Peter and John brought before them, they asked, “By whose authority or in what name have you done this thing [i.e., healed the crippled man]?”

Romans 7:3

So, if she lives with another man while her husband is still alive, she will be called an adulteress [i.e., a person who is sexually unfaithful to their mate]. But if her husband dies, she is legally free to marry another man without committing adultery.