Analysis of the Story of the Adulterous Woman

Stoned Obituary: An Analysis of The Story of the Adulterous Woman Look which of you that never sin wrought, But is of life cleaner than she, Cast at her stones and spare her not, Clean out of sin if that ye be. (N-Town: Woman Taken In Adultery: Medieval Drama; Bevington, David; Houghton Mifflin, 1975) Who among us has never sinned? And, in our place as fellow victims of our own all too human nature, have we …

…to test our own virtues, and find forgiveness for others and ourselves. (words: 2426) Footnotes: 1: John 8:3-8:11 contains the story of The Adulterous Woman. 2: Leviticus 20:10 If a man commits adultery with his neighbour’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death. 3: Deuteronomy 22:22 If a man be caught lying with a married woman both must die, the man lying with the woman and the woman; thus you shall purge evil from Israel.