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:John 8:5 <br> By indirect inference from the context of Deuteronomy 22:21 and 22:24 the death commanded was by stoning. However, stoning is not explicitly commanded in Deuteronomy 22:22, only the commandment that "both of them shall die". <br>According to the [[Targum|Targum of Jonathan]] the death for adulteresses (and adulterers), without explicit specification of the kind of death, is carried out by strangling (garroting) with a napkin, which is the death always inferred by the Jewish rabbis for such personsafter the end of the 1st century [[BCE and CE|CE]], and is always understood by them since that time as the death implied in the law of Moses whenever death is simply spoken of and it does not specify what death. <br>On this basis, many scholars have [[Specious reasoning|speciously]] asserted that John 8:1-11 cannot be authentic. Other scholars doubt that the interpretation represented in the Targum of Jonathan was the lawful [[opinion ]] of the Jewish authorities at the time of Jesus. See articles