7So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
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Judge not, that ye be not judged. …
Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? …
Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. …
At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. …
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. …
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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