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The Woman Caught in Adultery
The woman caught in adultery is an unnamed woman who appears in John 7:53–8:11. She is the central figure in the account in which Jesus told her accusers, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her."
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- John 8Bible
John 8 opens with the account of Jesus declining to condemn the woman caught in adultery. It also contains his declaration "I am the light of the world" and a long dispute with the Jews over his identity.
- John 8:11Bible Verses
John 8:11 records Jesus' words to the woman brought to him after she was caught in adultery: "Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more." The verse is often cited because it joins forgiveness with a call to a new life. Discussion of the verse also addresses the fact that the passage containing it is absent from the oldest manuscripts.
- Revelation 12:9Bible Verses
Revelation 12:9 belongs to the vision of war in heaven in Revelation 12. In it the great dragon is cast down to the earth and identified as "that old serpent," the Devil, and Satan. The verse is frequently cited in discussions of the Devil's identity and origin and of when Satan was cast out.
- Woman with the Issue of BloodPeople
The woman with the issue of blood is an unnamed woman who, according to the Synoptic Gospels, suffered for twelve years from bleeding that would not stop and was healed when she touched the garment of Jesus.
- Shulamite WomanPeople
The Shulamite woman is the woman called "the Shulamite" in the Old Testament book of the Song of Songs. She is commonly understood to be the female speaker who exchanges songs of love with her beloved in the book.
- Parable of the Lost CoinBible
The Parable of the Lost Coin is a parable of Jesus found in Luke 15:8-10. It tells of a woman who loses one silver coin, finds it, and rejoices with her neighbors, and it speaks of the joy before God when one sinner repents.
- Wise Woman of TekoaPeople
The wise woman of Tekoa is an unnamed woman who appears in 2 Samuel 14. At Joab's request, she told King David a fabricated story to persuade him, helping to bring the exiled Absalom back to Jerusalem.
- MaryPeople
Mary is the woman presented in the New Testament as the mother of Jesus Christ. Protestants and Catholics both confess the virgin birth, but they differ in their understanding of Mary's status and of the veneration due to her.
- Medium of EndorPeople
The medium of Endor is a woman in 1 Samuel 28 who was said to call up the spirits of the dead. According to the biblical account, she called up the deceased Samuel at the request of King Saul on the eve of his battle with the Philistines.
- Mary MagdalenePeople
Mary Magdalene was a woman disciple who followed Jesus from the time of his Galilean ministry. All four Gospels record that she witnessed the crucifixion of Jesus and the empty tomb, and the Gospel of John presents her as the first person to meet the risen Jesus.
- Mary ScrantonPeople
Mary Scranton (1832–1909) was the first woman missionary sent to Korea by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church (the Northern Methodist Church in the United States). In 1886 she founded Ewha Haktang, Korea's first modern educational institution for women.
- Eating of the Forbidden FruitBible
The eating of the forbidden fruit is the event recorded in Genesis 3 in which Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which God had forbidden, and were driven out of the Garden of Eden. Christianity understands it as the beginning of the fall of humanity.
- Genesis 3:15Bible Verses
Genesis 3:15 is God's declaration to the serpent that the seed of the woman "shall bruise thy head." The church has called this verse the Protoevangelium, the first announcement of Christ's victory, and interpreters differ over the identity of the seed.
- Proverbs 31:30Bible Verses
Proverbs 31:30 declares that favour and beauty are vain but that a woman who fears the LORD shall be praised. It forms the conclusion of the poem of the "virtuous woman" at the end of the Book of Proverbs. The verse is frequently cited as a model of the woman of faith, and interpreters differ on how that portrait should be understood.
- 1 Corinthians 11:3Bible Verses
A verse stating that the head of every man is Christ, "the head of the woman is the man," and the head of Christ is God. The meaning of "head" (kephalē) continues to be disputed in debates over the roles of men and women, the ordination of women, and order within the Trinity.
- John 8:7Bible Verses
John 8:7 is the verse in which Jesus says to those about to stone a woman taken in adultery, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." It is a classic text on mercy and forgiveness, but it raises a textual problem: the entire story is absent from the oldest manuscripts.
- Genesis 3:16Bible Verses
Genesis 3:16 records God's words to the woman after the Fall, in which He increases her pain in childbirth and declares that her husband "shall rule over thee." In discussions of the relationship between men and women, interpreters disagree over whether the verse establishes an order ordained by God or describes a distortion produced by sin.
- 1 Timothy 2:11–12Bible Verses
1 Timothy 2:11–12 is the passage that reads, "Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. … But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man." It is a central text in the debate over the ordination of women and the role of women in the church, and denominations have reached differing conclusions about it.
- Genesis 2:20–24Bible Verses
This passage depicts God making the woman from the rib taken from Adam and bringing her to him. The phrase "they shall be one flesh" in verse 24, quoted by Jesus and Paul, is widely used as a foundation for the Christian understanding of marriage. The passage also figures frequently in interpretive debates over the relationship between men and women and the status of women.