In John 7:53, explain the Adulterous woman

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What would Jesus do? This phrase is everywhere. On bumper stickers, bracelets, notebooks, laptops, and every other object that can theoretically have 4 words on it. The story of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery is one of the best known stories about Jesus in the bible, but it only appears once in John 7:53-8:11. As the story goes, a woman is caught in the act of adultery and taken to Jesus. The scribes and the Pharisees, the greatest enemies of Jesus, ask him what to do with her. This is, of course, a trap. If Jesus tells them to let her go, he would be ignoring the la of Moses. If he says to stone her, he is going against his own forgiving nature. So, as the old mantra goes, "What would Jesus do?"

Sources:

Bart Ehrman - Misquoting Jesus

Bart Ehrman - Lost Christianities

Darren Slade - The Historicity of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11)

Lincoln H. Blumell - A Text-Critical Comparison of the King James New Testament with Certain Modern Translations

David Alan Black, Jacob N. Cerone - The Pericope of the Adulteress in Contemporary Research (The Library of New Testament Studies)

Daniel Wilson - The Pericope Adulterae: An Intermediate Look into the Non-Originality of a Favorite Passage

Kurt and Barbara Aland - The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism

Bruce Metzger - The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration

Chris Keith - Jesus Began to Write: Literacy, the Pericope Adulterae, and the Gospel of John