Bruce H. Smith, Woman Taken in Adultery (recent)Gerardus Duyckinck (1695-1746), The Woman Taken in Adultery, c. 1725-1730. Oil on canvas; 41 1/2" x 50 1/2". Philadelphia Museum of Art.Vasiliy Polenov. Christ and Woman Taken in Adultery. 1886-1887. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov...
1. Jesus delivers the woman taken in adultery.12. He declares himself the light of the world, and justifies his doctrine;31. promises freedom to those who believe;33. answers the Jews who boasted of Abraham;48. answers their reviling, by showing his authority and dignity;59. and slips ...
The Woman Caught in Adultery…24That is why I told you that you would die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.” 25“Who are You?” they asked. “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning,” Jesus replied. 26“I have much ...
This essay explores the problematic story of the "woman taken in adultery" (John 7:53-8:11) in relation to logocentric structures that define the Gospel of John. Jesus's two acts of writing on the ground, unique to this story, point to texts that we cannot read and which are ...
Jesus and the Woman of Samaria - Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
Jesus had stopped trying to teach and waited. The spokesman for the group--an elderly Pharisee, one would judge by the way he was dressed--flung a challenge at Jesus. "Teacher," he bellowed so all could hear, "this woman was caught in the very act of adultery. In the Law, Moses ...
Then, when the man is lonely and the woman is rejected they experience a resentment in their hearts. Really, they have been deceived. They have choked off the possibilities that existed in the gift of each other. To the young, I say, “Cast off the deceits of the world...
old scrubbers and scab infected lepers who wouldn't get within 50 feet of a synagogue and Jesus seemed to go out of his way to make them welcome. The woman caught in adultery, people who according to the law were ritually unclean like the woman with a haemorrhage—the equivalent of today...
28.“O sister of Harun (Aaron) [Mary was a descendant of Aaron.]. Your father was not a man who used to commit adultery, nor was your mother an unchaste woman.” 29.Then she pointed to him. They said: “How can we talk to one who is a child in the cradle?” ...
in adultery. They made her stand before the group4and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.5In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women.Now what do you say?”6They were using this question as a trap,in order to have a basis for accusing ...