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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

John 8:4

They bring to our Saviour a woman taken in the act of adultery, and set her before him.

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The Woman Taken in Adultery. (John 8:1 .)_ 2. The Light of the World. (John 8:12 .) 3. His Testimony Concerning Himself and the Father. (John 8:13 .) 4. His Solemn Declarations. ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    PERICOPE ADULTERS. JOHN 7:53 TO JOHN 8:11. JESUS AND THE WOMAN ACCUSED OF SIN. The well-known story of the woman taken in adultery has no claim to be regarded as part of the original text of this gos...

  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    MOSES COMMANDED SUCH SHOULD BE STONED. The Mosaic enactment is found in Deuteronomy 22:22, and Leviticus 20:10. It required stoning in the case of. betrothed virgin, and also made the infidelity of. w...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    And each of them went to his own house; but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning he was again in the Temple precincts, and all the people came to him. He sat down and went on teachi...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MASTER = TEACHER. App-98. John 8:1. IN THE VERY ACT. Greek. _ep'_ (App-104.) autophoro. Autophoros means self-detected....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    1–11. The number of various readings in this section is very large, and we have not the data for constructing a satisfactory text....

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΚΑΤΕΊΛΗΠΤΑΙ for κατελήφθη. 4. ΚΑΤΕΊΛΗΠΤΑΙ. HATH BEEN _taken_. The vividness of this, and still more of ἐπαυτοφώρῳ (literally, ‘in the very act of theft’), is another piece of brutal indelicacy....

  • Catena Aurea Commentary

    Ver. Jesus went to the mount of Olives. 2. And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him; and he sat down, and taught them. 3. And the Scribes and Pharisees br...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _GO AND SIN NO MORE -- JOHN 8:1-11:_ Jesus spent the night in Mount Olives. Early the next morning the people were waiting for Him in the Temple. He did not disappoint them. He came to the Temple, sat...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΚΑΤΕΊΛΗΠΤΑΙ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΚΑΤΑΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ хватать, _см._ John 8:3. ΑΥΤΟΦΏΡΩ (G1888) _fem. dat. sing._ (пойманный) с поличным. Относится к пойманному вору или прелюбодею (BAGD). ΜΟΙΧΕΥΟΜΈΝΗ _prae...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    See the chapter comments for John 8:1-59....

  • Combined Bible Commentary

    EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 8:1-11 We begin with the customary Analysis:— In this series of expositions of John’s Gospel we have sedulously avoided technical matters, preferring to confine...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. THEY SAY UNTO HIM, MASTER, THIS WOMAN WAS TAKEN IN ADULTERY, IN THE VERY ACT....

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    41 Ever since the days of Moses the nation of Israel has been waiting for the Prophet Who was to be like him, and lead the nation out of worse than Egyptian bondage into the heritage of the kingdom. T...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES CONTINUED. CHRIST THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD John 7:53 to John 8:11. The woman taken in adultery. All modern critics agree that this section is no original part of the Fourth Gosp...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 8 JESUS FORGIVES A WOMAN 8:1-11 V1 But Jesus walked to the place called the Hill of *Olives. V2 Early next morning, he...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    The Cambridge MS. reads, “the priests say unto Him, tempting Him, that they might have to accuse Him,” adding the word “priests,” and placing here the first words of the sixth verse of the Received te...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 17 THE WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY. “And they went every man unto his own house: but Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. And early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the peopl...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE ACCUSERS SELF-CONDEMNED John 8:1-11 This passage has been the subject of much controversy, but there is no possibility of accounting for it except on the supposition that this incident really to...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The end of chapter 7 is closely linked with this, in that after declaring "every man went to his own house," the writer said, "But Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives." Here we have the story of a re...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    CHAPTER 3 THE ADULTEROUS WOMAN John 8:1-11. I merely insert this caption through courtesy to the English reader; but will be excused from the exposition, as this item is entirely absent from the orig...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    Γραμματεῖς, _the scribes_, is a ἅπαξ λεγόμενον in John; the Synoptic style. It is scarcely probable that already at that time these men, so proud of their knowledge, would have submitted to Him so gra...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery: and when they had set her in the midst, (4) They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. (5)...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The point at which we have arrived gives me an opportunity of saying a little on the beginning of this chapter, and the end of the last; for it is well known that many men, and, I am sorry to add, not...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In chapter 8, as we have said, the word of Jesus is rejected; and, in chapter 9, His works. But there is much more than that. The personal glories of chapter 1 are reproduced and developed in all thes...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEY SAY UNTO HIM, MASTER,.... They applied to him in a handsome and respectful manner, the better to cover their ill design: THIS WOMAN WAS TAKEN IN ADULTERY; by two persons at least, who could be w...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Ver. 4. _In the very act_] Gr. in the very theft; perhaps to intimate the great theft that is in adultery, whiles the chi...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman,_ &c. While he was thus employed, the scribes and Pharisees set a woman before him, that had been taken in the act of adultery; and standing rou...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THEY SAY UNTO HIM, MASTER, THIS WOMAN WAS TAKEN IN ADULTERY, IN THE VERY ACT....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY. The arraignment of the guilty woman:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    A WOMAN CAUGHT IN ADULTERY (vs.1-11) While others went to their homes, the Lord spent the night in the mount of Olives, away from all the words and thoughts of men, in the calm of His Father's prese...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-11 Christ neither found fault with the law, nor excused the prisoner's guilt; nor did he countenance the pretended zeal of the Pharisees. Those are self-condemned who judge others, and yet do the s...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    John 8:4 said G3004 (G5719) Him G846 Teacher G1320 this G3778 woman G1135 caught G2638 (G5681) adultery...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the very act of adultery. Now Moses in the law commanded us to stone women like this, but what do you say about her?” And this they said, testing him, that they...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    The almost unanimous voice of modem criticism pronounces the narrative before us to be no genuine part of the Gospel of John. The section is wanting in the oldest and most trustworthy MSS. of the Gosp...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    John 8:4. THEY SAY UNTO HIM, TEACHER, THIS WOMAN HATH BEEN TAKEN COMMITTING ADULTERY, IN THE VERY ACT. Not only was the sin grievous: the point is that there was no possibility of denying it. No proce...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    HATH BEEN TAKEN (κατειληπτα). Perfect passive indicative of καταλαμβανω (see verse John 8:3), caught and still guilty.IN ADULTERY (μοιχευομενη). Present passive participle of μοιχευω, "herself su...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    John 7:53. _And every man went unto his own house_. John 8:1. _Jesus went unto the mount of Olives._ That is, as every man went to his own house to rest, so Jesus found rest in secret prayer on the...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The woman taken in adultery. Discourse after the feast on Jesus as Light of the world. Satan, the original liar and murderer, and the Satanic brotherhood. CHARACTERS: Jesus, adulterous woma...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    John 8:1. _Jesus went to the mount of Olives,_ where it is probable he slept in some booth in the gardens; and returned early to the temple, to preach to the people, before the commencement of public...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    TEACHER. They call him this, but they do not mean it. THIS WOMAN WAS CAUGHT IN THE VERY ACT. These men were acting as private individuals, and came to Jesus claiming to be so shocked by this woman's c...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And the Scribes and the Pharisees brought unto Him a woman taken in adultery_ THE SCENE AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE It is probable that the hilarity and abandonment of the feast, which had grown to be a k...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    1-59 CHAPTER 8 VER. 1. _But Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives._ On the last day of the Feast Jesus had taught in the temple, and confuted the Pharisees, while they, after their wont, returned home t...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 7:1. For the general exposition of this section see Homiletic Notes, pp. 233–235. John 7:2. EARLY IN THE MORNING (ὄρθρου).—St. John’s usual word is πρωῒ (John 20...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION Verses 7:53-8:11 (8) _The pericope adulterae. _(A)_ Excursus on the genuineness of _John 7:53-43__John 7:53-43. It is our duty to examine the various grounds on which this passage has been...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives. And early in the morning he came again to the temple (John 8:1-2), Now the feast is over, but Jesus is returning to the temple on the next day. and all of th...

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    (CF. ROMANS 13:4)— Did Jesus repudiate capital punishment in this text? PROBLEM: Passages like Romans 13:4 present a good case for capital punishment, for the passage says, “for it [the government] do...

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