![]() Our Lord’s enemies brought before Him a woman guilty of adultery, and asked him to say what punishment she deserved. ![]() Let us calmly weigh the matter, and examine the contents of the passage. There is not a sentence in it to warrant our saying anything of the kind. There is nothing in the passage to justify such an assertion. To suppose, as some have thought, that the narrative before us palliates the sin of adultery, and exhibits our Lord as making light of the seventh commandment, is surely a great mistake. But the justice of such scruples is a point that cannot easily be proved. In every age some scrupulous minds have stumbled at the passage, and have doubted whether it was ever written by John at all. ![]() There is nothing quite like it in the whole range of the four Gospels. THE narrative which begins the eighth chapter of John’s Gospel is of a rather peculiar character. ![]()
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