Adultery

Most often this scripture is titled “The Adulterous Woman”. 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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