Oh I’m a dummy for pointing out the obvious?
Not very Christian of you.
Why the heck do you think it took 500 years for the reference to be added? Not 5 months or 5 years. 500 years.
You think everyone forgot and remembered it five centuries later?
Rank speculation on your part, offered without any evidence. Stfu
LOL!!! Where do you come up with 500 years??? PROOF PLEASE!
Since different manuscripts from that era have the story, albeit in different places, perhaps the question arose at some point where to place the story. I think the story took place, and also that the adultery and the writing episode was considered true by the Church but where to place it in the Bible was questioned. A decision was probably made by the authorities at the time to best place the the story in john 8. Of course they didn’t have the chapter and verse system we use now.