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1. P.A. Notes
   (10/19/2019)

   Mark & Matthew show alabaster event leading to Judas betrayal

   In Luke, alabaster event contrasts a Pharisee and a sinful woman and shows forgiveness of sins, no mention of this as perpetual part of the message.

   Later, the account of the adulterous woman is included in John’s gospel

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   In Mark & Matthew the alabaster event immediately precedes Judas betrayal.
   Luke’s alabaster event in chapter 7 contrasts the Pharisee and the sinful woman. Chapter 22 is Judas betrayal.

   In some manuscripts, the pericopae is located right before Luke 22 (between chapters 21 & 22, right after last verse of chapter 21:38)

   So that Lucan pericopae location is right before Judas betrayal, like Mark & Matthew alabaster event is.

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2. On the Pericope

   Some people don’t like thinking about the actual process of how our scriptures came to be, just accept that they are, and that approach is okay because they are complete and 7 maal gelauwterd. Still, in addition to the depth of wisdom in the scriptures themselves, there are additional depths of awe which surround the recording and preservation and compiling of the scriptures themselves through the lives of the faithful over centuries and millennia.

   I find the pericope to be a unique one. Some also find it very disturbing to encounter the footnotes in some bibles regarding John 7:53-8:11. Yet those footnotes are there and for good reason. I have in some of my recent studies looked into those some for a better understanding. To sum up, after reflecting on all the facts, th[r]ough [a] little conjecture, a thought came to mind which I haven’t read anywhere but which seems very compelling and which connects the pericope as a very likely instance of one additional account the LORD saw fit to give us after the completion of the original account.

   Some may prefer to declare that it was in the original, but we are definitively shown by demonstration of the actual records [that it] in fact was not. This being the case, the John 21:25 teaser provides a smiling indicator of the pericope as being one of these additional accounts from the Life of Jesus, known and recounted, separately written [and perhaps circulated as a stand alone account] and later given to the saints in the gospel for further edification.

   -RDG
   4/21/2018, with minor edits

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3. This comes from a comment on the second hidden link in this post

   https://www.thetextofthegospels.com/2017/12/my-favorite-passage-about-adulteress-in.html?m=1

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