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Caught in the act The woman caught in the act of adultery. (John 8:3-11) 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, "If any one of you is without sin, let him 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." This is one of the most remarkable recorded incidents in the New Testament, so we will examine it point by point. Firstly, the Pharisees brought to Jesus a woman caught in adultery - now whatever happened to the man? The penalty under the Law for adultery was death, both for the woman and the man. Lev 20:10 "'If a man commits adultery with another man's wife--with the wife of his neighbor--both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death. "If a man is found sleeping with another man's wife ... you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death" (Deut 22:22-24). The Pharisees had brought the woman to Jesus to try to trap him, to see if he upheld the Law and told them to stone her or failed to uphold the Law by letting her go. In his classic reply "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." He was put them in the spot, firstly because the death penalty had to be carried out by witnesses to the crime and by its nature there are usually no witnesses to adultery. Secondly while they accused her of adultery, each of them was guilty of lust or other sins and therefore no one could cast the first stone. Finally the one person who was both the Law giver and sinless and therefore entitled to cast the first stone was Jesus himself. Unable to condemn her they all left starting with the older ones who presumably had more sins. Now what is the reaction of Jesus the sinless one, he did not condone her or condemn her but told her to leave her life of sin. |
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