»Rabbi,« they said, »this woman has been found in the very act of committing adultery.
But Joseph her husband, being a kind-hearted man and unwilling publicly to disgrace her, had determined to release her privately from the betrothal.
and was teaching them when the Scribes and the Pharisees brought to Him a woman who had been found committing adultery. They made her stand in the centre of the court, and they put the case to Him.
Now, in the Law, Moses has ordered us to stone such women to death. But what do you say?«