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3 unusual facts about Jesus and the woman taken in adultery


Jesus and the woman taken in adultery

According to Henry Alford and F. H. A. Scrivener the passage was added by John in a second edition of the Gospel along with 5:3.4 and the 21st chapter.

Let He Who Is Without Sin...

The title comes from the teaching of the Adulterous Woman in the Gospel of John, and is a hypercorrection of "let him who is without sin" (John 8:7, RSV).

The Adulterous Woman

The title of the story is taken from John 8:3-11 - The Adulterous Woman, in which a mob brings an adulteress before Jesus for judgment, the usual punishment for adultery being death by stoning.


Family 13

Family 13, also known Ferrar Group (f13, von Soden calls the group Ii), is a group of Greek Gospel manuscripts, varying in date from the 11th to the 15th century, which display a distinctive pattern of variant readings — especially in placing the story of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery (John 7:53-8:11) in the Gospel of Luke, rather than in the Gospel of John.

Minuscule 488

Charles Burney made a collation only for Mark 1:1-4:16; John 7:53-8:11, it was held in the Lambeth Palace (1223).


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