John 8:3-4

This is the only place in John’s Gospel where the writer mentioned the scribes and Pharisees together, though their association in the Synoptics is common. This is one reason many scholars doubt that John wrote this passage. Jesus’ critics brought a woman whom they claimed to have caught in the act of committing adultery and placed her in the center of the group that Jesus was teaching. They addressed Him respectfully though hypocritically as "teacher." We can only speculate about what had happened to her partner in sin. Perhaps he had escaped, or perhaps the authorities had released him since their main interest seems to have been the woman. The Mosaic Law required that both parties involved in adultery suffer stoning (Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22). Jesus did not challenge the scribes and Pharisees’ charge or try to prove it unjust.