Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and made her stand in the middle.
I will inflict on you the sentence of adultery and murder; I will bring on you bloody wrath and jealous anger.
The righteous shall certainly punish them with sentences given to adulterers and murderers, for they committed adultery, and blood is on their hands.
Those who caught him at it brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole community.
Assembling all the chief priests and the scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Messiah was to be born.
But early in the morning he arrived again in the temple area, and all the people started coming to him, and he sat down and taught them.
They said to him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery.
And in response, they went away one by one, beginning with the elders. So he was left alone with the woman before him.
They brought the one who was once blind to the Pharisees.
They brought them into their presence and questioned them, “By what power or by what name have you done this?”
Consequently, while her husband is alive she will be called an adulteress if she consorts with another man. But if her husband dies she is free from that law, and she is not an adulteress if she consorts with another man.