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Jesus and the woman taken in adultery (or the Pericope Adulterae) [a] is considered by many 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 concept for the future canvas, entitled Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, was first conceived in 1868, [11] [12] influenced by Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov's painting The Appearance of Christ Before the People. Polenov set himself the task of creating "Christ not only coming, but already in the world, making his way among the people".
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 ...
This verse follows immediately after the prohibition against murder, and the Sermon follows this same pattern. The equation of lust with adultery is very similar to the earlier equation of anger and murder in Matthew 5:22. Like the previous verse this is often interpreted as Jesus expanding on the requirements of Mosaic Law, but not rejecting it.
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[1] [2] In the early years of the museum's existence, Christ and Sinner was exhibited in the same room as Ilya Repin's Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, Vasily Surikov's The Conquest of Siberia by Yermak Timofeyevich, Konstantin Savitsky's To the War and a painting on a similar theme Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery by Vasily Polenov.
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The Woman Taken in Adultery is a painting of 1644 by Rembrandt, bought by the National Gallery in London in 1824, as one of their foundation batch of paintings. It is in oil on oak, and 83.8 x 65.4 cm. [1] Rembrandt shows the episode of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery from the Gospel of Saint John.