Expositor's Bible Commentary Commentary John 8:10

"And Jesus lifted up himself, and said unto her, Woman, where are they? did no man condemn thee?" — John 8:10 (ASV)

Jesus’ address to the woman was respectful (cf. 2:4; 20:13). Her accusers, more interested in destroying Jesus than in saving her, had made her the bait for a trap. Their vicious hatred of him was as bad as her immorality. His rebuke had prevented their pronouncing sentence on her; Jesus did not pronounce sentence either. But neither did he proclaim her to be innocent.