Strange sayings from the mouth of the reformer! But stranger still are his references to God and Christ when it comes to Luther’s own shortcomings. We shall see later his own attitude to sex and morality. But he excused his own adultery—to quote merely one more example—by the teachings of Christ. “Christ”, says Luther, “committed adultery first of all with the woman at the well about whom Saint John tells us. Was not everybody about Him saying: `Whatever has he been doing with her?” Secondly, with Mary Magdalene, and thirdly with the woman taken in adultery whom He dismissed so lightly. Thus even Christ, who was so righteous, must have been guilty of fornication before He died” (“Table Talk”, 1472) (W2, 107).
Very often Martin Luther’s rantings against Christ indicates that he might have been secretly stealing and heavily indulging in the alter wine outside of the Mass.