John 8:10 Commentary and Bible Study

Of course, he knew the answer – this was not a question asked for his benefit. Notice she calls him ‘Lord’, and the word for ‘Lord’ – a far better word than that which the Pharisees had used; they called him ‘Master’ merely teacher, a human teacher – she calls him, ‘Lord’, using the Greek term which implies ‘supreme Lord’. She knew who he was. Maybe she knew about the forgiveness of that adulteress in Luke chapter 7? The Pharisees would have known because, although it was somewhere in Galilee, it was in the house of a leading Pharisee that that woman was forgiven, and that would have spread, but perhaps this adulteress knew of that example of an adulteress being given the opportunity of forgiveness by the Lord.