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Why Was Only the Woman Brought Before Jesus?

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Paul Ian Clarke
Oct 26, 2026
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Rembrandt’s dark interior scene showing a woman dressed in white kneeling before Jesus while a group of male accusers gather around them in the Temple.
The Woman Taken in Adultery, Rembrandt, 1644. The woman becomes the visible centre of a confrontation that, according to the Gospel, was really intended to trap Jesus. Public domain, National Gallery, London.

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