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The Bible In Paintings: ✝️ JESUS, AN ADULTERESS, AND SOME OVERLY EAGER ACCUSERS ✝️ Part 1

Posted on 01/09/2023 6:20:58 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6



The Bible In Paintings
~ Encouragement for Appreciating and Applying God's Word ~






JESUS, AN ADULTERESS,
AND SOME OVERLY
EAGER ACCUSERS



֎ Featuring 34 Paintings ֎

J O H N
Chapter 8

Jesus appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.

But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

“No one, sir,” she said.

“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and LEAVE YOUR LIFE OF SIN.”




1
ELIZABETH WANG
"Jesus Forgives the Woman Caught in Adultery"




2
VECELLIO TIZIANO
"Christ and the Adulteress"




3
LUCAS CRANACH the Elder
"Christ and the Adulteress"




4
LUCAS CRANACH the Younger
"Christ and the Adulteress"




5
LUCAS CRANACH THE YOUNGER
"Christ and the Adulteress"




6
ROCCO MARCONI
"Christ and the Adulteress"




7
REMBRANDT
"Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery"




8
Detail #1
Source




9
Detail #2
Source




10
TINTORETTO
"Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery"




11
"Christ and the Adulteress"




12
VASILY POLENOV
"Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery"




13
Detail




14
MATTIA PRETI
"Christ and the Adulteress"




15
PIETER BRUEGEL the Elder
"Christ and the Adulteress"




16
NICOLAS POUSSIN
"Christ and the Adulteress"




17
LORENZO LOTTO
"Christ and the Adulteress"




18
PIETER AERTSEN
"Christ and the Adulteress"




19
POLIDORO DA LANCIANO
"Christ and the Adulteress"




20
ALESSANDRO VAROTARI
"Christ and the Adulteress"




21
DETTO PIETRO DELLA VECCHIA PIETRO MUTTONI
"Christ and the Adulteress"




22
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PITTONI the Younger
"The Adulteress before Christ"




23
HE QI
"Woman Caught in Adultery"




24
PIETER VAN LINT
"Christ and the Adulterous Woman"




25
GUSTAVE DORÉ
"Jesus and the Woman Taken in Adultery"




26
GUERCINO
"Christ with the Woman Taken in Adultery"




27
"Christ with the Woman Taken In Adultery"




28
Source




29
WILLIAM ARTAUD
"The Woman Accused of Adultery"




30
MATTIA PRETI
"Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery"




31
DOMENICO MORELLI
"Cristo y la Mujer Adúltera"




32
VALENTIN DE BOULOGNE
"Christ and the Adulteress"




33
ISAAK ASKNAZIY
"Jesus and the Adulteress"





→ a n d... f i n a l l y ←






34
ÉMILE SIGNOL
"Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery"




To be continued…






New International Version ©1984, Abrgd, EMPHASES added






TOPICS: Apologetics; General Discusssion; History; Theology
KEYWORDS: art; bible; paintings
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To: NorthMountain

“perhaps best we not be eager accusers”
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Well said, and Amen-


21 posted on 01/09/2023 7:22:45 AM PST by InkStone (ONLY returning to Faith in God, thru Jesus Yeshua, will save America)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

You are right Dan, I should have said “All believers” =:^)


22 posted on 01/09/2023 7:24:25 AM PST by InkStone (ONLY returning to Faith in God, thru Jesus Yeshua, will save America)
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To: Red Badger
Gunny gets to the heart of the matter.
23 posted on 01/09/2023 7:27:53 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Rembrandt, the truly great master. #25. Gustav Doré, is the best of all of the images shown, actually telling the whole story in one image with everyone’s emotional state probably very accurately represented. #27 is well done too. Would be nice to know who the artist is/was.


24 posted on 01/09/2023 8:18:33 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin; InkStone; Hebrews 11:6

I believe #27 is by the artist Harry Anderson.


25 posted on 01/09/2023 8:38:04 AM PST by etabeta
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
#27 is well done too. Would be nice to know who the artist is/was.

Did an image search just now and followed all the links, about a baker's dozen. None offered an attribution.

26 posted on 01/09/2023 8:42:57 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (“And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” Acts 2:47 -- It's still true!)
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To: etabeta

Always nice to hear an informed opinion.


27 posted on 01/09/2023 8:55:31 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (“And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” Acts 2:47 -- It's still true!)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

We have encountered his work before. Remember Jesus on the edge of the lake calling to the apostles? He is a splendid illustrator of the Bible. His touch is soft, there is always a serene aura to his work.


28 posted on 01/09/2023 9:13:41 AM PST by etabeta
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Found it!

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/500532946067556312/


29 posted on 01/09/2023 9:18:32 AM PST by etabeta
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To: etabeta

Q.E.D.


30 posted on 01/09/2023 9:31:22 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (“And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” Acts 2:47 -- It's still true!)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Latin? (quod eram demonstrandum?) Or somethin knew you concocted....


31 posted on 01/09/2023 9:34:26 AM PST by etabeta
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To: Hebrews 11:6

The Polenov (12, 13) has not been mentioned, I like the perspective here and the action inherent…he catches the scene at the very beginning, before, it seems, Christ even has a good idea of what is happening.


32 posted on 01/09/2023 9:42:58 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: etabeta

In mathematics, when one proves a theorem he puts QED at the end to claim success: “Thus it is demonstrated”.


33 posted on 01/09/2023 9:55:44 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (“And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” Acts 2:47 -- It's still true!)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

Thanks, Scott, for mentioning and critiquing it, my hands-down favorite.


34 posted on 01/09/2023 9:58:05 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (“And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” Acts 2:47 -- It's still true!)
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To: etabeta

Nice Going etabeta; you are right indeed! What a prolific artist; we’ve seen his work all of our lives, but I didn’t know his name.


35 posted on 01/09/2023 10:53:50 AM PST by InkStone (ONLY returning to Faith in God, thru Jesus Yeshua, will save America)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

#27 my favorite today

So, what is Jesus writing?
Names of the women that the accusers might have adulterated with?


36 posted on 01/09/2023 2:09:11 PM PST by SisterK (the final variant is communism)
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To: SisterK

LOL, that is hilarious!


37 posted on 01/09/2023 2:21:56 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (“And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” Acts 2:47 -- It's still true!)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Whatever He wrote is significant. They all came to test Him, but whatever He wrote made them drop all their stones and walk away, the oldest men first.

IIRC there are only three times in the Bible that God writes, and always with His finger.
The Ten Commandments on stone
the writing on the wall in Babylon
and now with this adulterous woman

Like all the other passages in the Bible, this one has so many layers that we can never unpeel all of it. The Book is far from boring.


38 posted on 01/09/2023 4:27:30 PM PST by SisterK (the final variant is communism)
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To: SisterK

disclaimer
I do believe that God wrote all the Bible, whether through Moses, David, prophets or disciples.
God employed scribes.
Very few times we witness Him doing the writing.


39 posted on 01/09/2023 4:32:18 PM PST by SisterK (the final variant is communism)
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To: SisterK

John 8 is a questionable passage, not appearing in the earliest manuscripts. Modern Bibles generally include it (but with that caveat), so I did, too.

So, I treat everything in it with skepticism.


40 posted on 01/09/2023 4:37:40 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (“And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” Acts 2:47 -- It's still true!)
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