Now, in the Law, Moses has ordered us to stone such women to death. But what do you say?«
But Joseph her husband, being a kind-hearted man and unwilling publicly to disgrace her, had determined to release her privately from the betrothal.
»Do not for a moment suppose that I have come to abrogate the Law or the Prophets: I have not come to abrogate them but to give them their completion.«
»Rabbi,« they said, »this woman has been found in the very act of committing adultery.