John 8:3

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

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.

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.