:'''John 8:7-11''' stands as a shining example of what Jesus said of himself in verse 12 "'''I am the light of the world'''" and in verse 18 "'''I judge no one'''". He had admonished them to "'''Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.'''" John 7:24. The [[Exegesis|exegete]] must include the context of the whole of the text of John 7–8 as passed down to the church to this day in evaluating the significant meaning of the passage. The continuity of John 7:52–8:12 appears evident from the context of the whole of the situation. As seen in expert commentaries on these verses, and by even the most ordinary student readers of this passage, when John 7:52 is immediately followed by 8:12 there is a clearly abrupt discontinuity between the situation in John 7:32-52 and Jesus' words to the Pharisees in John 8:12-20.
:'''The conclusion:''' based on the combined evidence of the decision of the Committee of the KJV translators, readings of Matthew 16:18 ''and'' 18:16-19, John 14:26, Romans 13:1-2, 1 Corinthians 11:2, 2 Thessalonians 2:15 ''and'' 3:6, Hebrews 13:17, 1 Peter 2:13-17 ''and'' 3:14-18, Revelation 22:18-19 (''as applied [[Fundamentalism|fundamentally]] to the whole Bible''), the ''[[sensus filiumfidelium]]'' of the Orthodox Church, the Catholic Church, the majority of Protestant churches, centuries of constant Christian tradition, the opinion of many knowledgeable Christian biblical scholars and Bible students and a large majority of the faithful claiming to be intuitively guided by the principles of ''sola scriptura'' and ''sola spiritu'' and their own simply personal sense of what is right, '''John 7:53-8:11 is authored by God the Holy Spirit as inspired Scripture and has been definitively and infallibly preserved and included by Him as an integral part of the Gospel of John'''.
:Those who disagree maintain that they are endeavoring to keep the Bible pure and free of [[error]] and [[Falsehood|false doctrine]].