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The Adulterous Woman
When everyone else went home after the last altercation with the Pharisees back in John 7, Jesus went the Mount of Olives. He must have spent some time with His Father in prayer there.
The next morning.... bright and early.... He was at it again. Those Pharisees were not going to stop Him from His mission.
The Pharisees were still trying to catch Him breaking the law. The penalty for adultery was death. After all, one of the ten Commandments handed down to Moses by God Himself said "Thou shalt not commit adultery". If Jesus forgave her then He would have been violating the law.
I have always wondered what Jesus was writing in the dirt. Whatever it was, it would have been wiped away by the wind. Come to think of it though, the law that the Pharisees were harping on would be wiped away when Jesus changed everything on the cross.
Jesus was the only one that was without sin. He didn't just tell her to go..... He didn't tell her to go move to another town.... He didn't just tell her to go to the temple and sacrifice an animal so she could be clean..... He told her to go and sin no more. He didn't accuse her.... He told her to stop what she was doing.... He defended her even to herself. After all.... when everyone else had left... she was still standing there waiting for any possible punishment Jesus might hand down.
Everyone else was gone.... She knew she had done wrong... She knew the punishment was death.... but she still stood there.... waiting for the punishment... Jesus told her to go.... and sin no more....
Meanwhile.... the Pharisees had already dispersed because they knew they had skeletons in their closet that they didn't want jumping out if they claimed to be without fault.
Right?
John 8:1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4 and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” 6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
9 At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
11 “No one, sir,” she said.
“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”
2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4 and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” 6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
9 At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
11 “No one, sir,” she said.
“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”
When everyone else went home after the last altercation with the Pharisees back in John 7, Jesus went the Mount of Olives. He must have spent some time with His Father in prayer there.
The next morning.... bright and early.... He was at it again. Those Pharisees were not going to stop Him from His mission.
The Pharisees were still trying to catch Him breaking the law. The penalty for adultery was death. After all, one of the ten Commandments handed down to Moses by God Himself said "Thou shalt not commit adultery". If Jesus forgave her then He would have been violating the law.
I have always wondered what Jesus was writing in the dirt. Whatever it was, it would have been wiped away by the wind. Come to think of it though, the law that the Pharisees were harping on would be wiped away when Jesus changed everything on the cross.
Jesus was the only one that was without sin. He didn't just tell her to go..... He didn't tell her to go move to another town.... He didn't just tell her to go to the temple and sacrifice an animal so she could be clean..... He told her to go and sin no more. He didn't accuse her.... He told her to stop what she was doing.... He defended her even to herself. After all.... when everyone else had left... she was still standing there waiting for any possible punishment Jesus might hand down.
Everyone else was gone.... She knew she had done wrong... She knew the punishment was death.... but she still stood there.... waiting for the punishment... Jesus told her to go.... and sin no more....
Meanwhile.... the Pharisees had already dispersed because they knew they had skeletons in their closet that they didn't want jumping out if they claimed to be without fault.
Right?
