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Jesus and the woman taken in adultery (or the Pericope Adulterae) [a] is considered by some to be a pseudepigraphical [1] [2]: 489 passage found in John 7:53–8:11 [3] of the New Testament. In the passage, Jesus was teaching in the Temple after coming from the Mount of Olives .
(The other three Gospels do not contain this story.) [2] [3] The Pharisees and Sadducees brought to Christ a woman found guilty of adultery. According to the laws of Moses, she was to be stoned, which was contrary to the preaching of humanity that Christ professed. As a result, Christ was faced with the dilemma of either breaking the laws of ...
Jesus and the woman taken in adultery is a biblical episode from John 8:1–8:20 where Jesus encounters an adulteress brought before Pharisees and scribes, which has been depicted by many artists. Such a crime was punishable by death by stoning ; however, in the scene, Jesus stoops to write (in Dutch) he that is without sin among you, let him ...
Christ and the Adulteress, also called Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, and The Adulteress Brought before Christ, is an oil painting usually attributed to Titian and painted early in his career, c. 1508-1510. It hangs in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, in Glasgow. [1]
The northern clergyman was but one of nearly 60 men and women, on both sides of the color line, to serve time in the Kentucky Penitentiary for the “crime” of helping the enslaved escape to ...
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After Indiana pastor John Lowe II revealed he committed adultery nearly 20 years ago, the woman took the pulpit and accused him of taking her virginity at 16.