John 8:1-11
Our Shame Overcome by the
Truth and Mercy of Jesus.
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*7:53 They went each to his own house,
8:1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
2 Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them.
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3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst
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4 they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. 5 Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?”
Leviticus 20:10 “‘If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death.
Deuteronomy 22:22 If a man is found sleeping with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
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4 they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. 5 Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?”
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6 This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him.
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Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.
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7 And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them,
“Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”
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8 And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground.
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9 But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.
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10 Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” 11 She said, “No one, Lord.”
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And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”
Look at Jesus in this Story
Pay attention to how Jesus relates to the Woman in this Story.
John 3
16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.
John 3
17 For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him.
James 2
12 Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom, 13 because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Romans 5
but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, 21 so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
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And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”
Romans 8 (NLT)
1 So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. 2 And because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death. 3 The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature. So God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins.