Johannes 8:4

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling

en stelden haar in het midden, en zeiden tot hem: Meester, deze vrouw is op de daad zelve gegrepen in overspel.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
en zeiden tot hem: Meester, die vrouw is op heterdaad betrapt terwijl zij overspel bedreef.

Staten Vertaling
En haar gesteld hebbende in het midden, zeiden zij tot Hem: Meester, deze vrouw is op de daad zelve gegrepen, overspel begaande.

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Reciprocal: Leviticus 20:10 - the adulterer Deuteronomy 22:22 - General Judges 19:3 - speak Matthew 1:19 - a public

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They say unto him, Master,.... They applied to him in a handsome and respectful manner, the better to cover their ill design:

this woman was taken in adultery; by two persons at least, who could be witnesses of it; otherwise the accusation was not legal; see

Deuteronomy 19:15; though in the case of a wife suspected of adultery, they admitted a single witness as valid f:

in the very act; or "in the theft itself", for adultery is a theft; it is an unlawful use of another's property; see this word used in the same sense, in Heliodor, l. 1. sect. 11.

f Maimon. Hilchot Eduth, c. 5. sect. 2.