The Woman Taken in Adultery

We arrive to an episode that records a woman taken in adultery who is brought before Jesus. The event is an effort of the scribes and Pharisees to obtain some charge against Jesus by which they could at least discredit Him, if not eliminate Him. But when our Lord addressed the situation, He revealed His wisdom in that He exposed their hypocrisy and duplicity in trying to find fault with Him. In the process of exposing them, the Lord spared this woman's life even as He admonished her to repent of her sins. This episode is one that is highly suspect as having been originally in the Gospel that John had first penned. We use this episode as an occasion to describe how God has superintended the preservation of His Word through history.