Story of adulterous woman is one of dignity restored
Debate over account’s canonicity has sometimes overshadowed its powerful lessons
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It’s difficult to imagine a more humiliating situation than the one which the adulterous woman of John 7:53-8:111 found herself in. Caught in the very act of adultery, perhaps by male witnesses she didn’t know, she was…