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What were the Pharisees going to accuse Jesus of in the story of the Woman Caught in Adultery?

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3 The scribes and Pharisees, however, brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before them 4and said, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such a woman. So what do You say?”
6 They said this to test Him, in order to have a basis for accusing Him.
Their intention was to create a dilemma for Jesus:

  1. If Jesus said to stone her, they would accuse him of disregarding Roman law, which reserved the right of capital punishment for the Roman authorities.
  2. If he said not to stone her, they would accuse him of breaking the Law of Moses.
They hoped to accuse Jesus either of breaking the Roman law or the Mosaic law.
 
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