The Adultery Test...

 

Numbers 5:26 And the priest shall take a handful of the grain offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water. 27 And when he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and has broken faith with her husband, the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain, and her womb shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away, and the woman shall become a curse among her people. 28 But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, then she shall be free and shall conceive children.

Whenever we read something in the New Testament, we often flash back to the Old Testament to see what it has to say about that.  Immediately when reading this passage, I think of the time the religious leaders brought a woman "caught in adultery" before Jesus demanding that He agree with stoning her to death. He was not so ready to jump on board. They were railroading the process. There was a "test" for that. There was the possibility the man was unrightfully "jealous". Did they even bother to find out? Were they presuming her guilt without due process? Were they caught up in their own self-righteousness?  How likely to do the same?