they say unto him, Teacher, this woman hath been taken in adultery, in the very act.
Christ was hunted out of the city, yet back He came at dawn to His work in the temple. He lodged outside Jerusalem because His enemies had houses and He had not so much as a borrowed bed; prudent withdrawal at night does not excuse absence from duty by day. A constant preacher, in season and out of season.
AI summary
Commenting on John 8:1-11
Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should, be stoned,.... Not in Lev 20:10; for though according to the law there, an adulteress, one that was a married woman, and so an adulterer, that was a married man, were to be put to death; yet the death was not stoning, but strangling; for it is a rule with the Jews (g), that where...
woman . . . in adultery . . . Moses . . . commanded . . . should be stoned--simply put to death (Deu 22:22), but in aggravated cases, at least in later times, this was probably by stoning (Eze 16:40).