Adultery
Most often this scripture is titled “The Adulterous Womanâ€. But what about the man?
John 7:53; John 8:1-11
- Every man went to his own house. Jesus went “home†to pray.
- Sitting in the temple, surrounded by students, Jesus is interrupted by scribes and Pharisees who set a woman in front of him, declaring that she had been taken in the act of adultery.
- Jesus refused to answer their trick question which was designed to pit Jesus against either divine law or Roman law.
- Instead he wrote something on the ground, and challenged the men that the sinless one among them should cast the first stone.
- Convicted by their own conscience (had they themselves been guilty of adultery?) they departed, leaving Jesus and woman surrounded by on-lookers.
- Jesus bade her to go, and sin no more, declining to condemn her.
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