5Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
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And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you. …
And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy. …
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)Though Christ was basely abused in the foregoing chapter, both by the rulers and by the people, yet here we have him still at Jerusalem, still in the temple. How often would he have gathered them ! Observe, I. His retirement in the evening out of the town (John 8:1): He went unto the mount of olives ; whether to some friend’s house, or to some booth pitched there, now at the feast of tabernacles,…
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