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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.
In May 2024, he appeared on the Danny Jones Podcast, making his fringe views on Christianity, Ancient Greek and Roman pharmacy, and the life of Jesus more widely known. The podcast has since amassed over 2.5 million views on YouTube .
It is a free interpretation of the episode of the Gospel of John, when Jesus saved a woman taken in adultery from those who wanted to stone her. Jesus appears at the center of the composition, having the adulteress, wearing a red veil with eyes closed and breasts visible, with her hands folded, begging for mercy, at his feet.
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 ...
Antonio da Correggio, The Betrayal of Christ, with a soldier in pursuit of Mark the Evangelist, c. 1522. The naked fugitive (or naked runaway or naked youth) is an unidentified figure mentioned briefly in the Gospel of Mark, immediately after the arrest of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane and the fleeing of all his disciples:
[46] [52] The woman depicted on the steps of the temple is the widow from the Gospels, whom Jesus described as "more beautiful than marvellous slabs of marble". [ 46 ] [ 53 ] The man on the right side of the painting is Simon of Cyrene , who is to carry the cross for Christ's crucifixion to Golgotha in the future.
Luke's account of Jesus at the home of Mary and Martha puts Jesus solidly on the side of the recognition of the full personhood of woman, with the right to options for her own life. By socializing with both sisters and in defending Mary's right to a role then commonly denied to Jewish women, Jesus was following his far-reaching principle of ...
Rembrandt shows the episode of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery from the Gospel of Saint John. In this scene, a few Jews, mainly Scribes and Pharisees, tried to catch Jesus condoning disobedience to the Jewish Law, knowing that Jesus pitied wrong-doers. To do this, they produced a woman who had been caught taking part in adultery. Then ...