Well despite what some may say these verses show up in my Bible, and standing that all word is the inspired word of God I rest on the tender comfort of these verses. May God illuminated this text and it may please God to use this crooked arrow to shoot straight ever now and then.
Jhn 8:2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.
Jhn 8:3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
Jhn 8:4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
Jhn 8:5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
Jhn 8:6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
Jhn 8:7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
Jhn 8:8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
Jhn 8:9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
Jhn 8:10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
Jhn 8:11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
- Is there any significance in Jesus standing in Jhn 7:37 and He sat here in vs 2?
- What do you believe Christ wrote?
What a marvelous example of Christ finished work we have before us. First we have the Savior who had come to seek and to save that which were lost. Next we have a sinner, a guilty sinner, a sinner who could by no means clear herself. She had broken the law and that law condemned her and the plenty for her transgression was death. Finally this lost guilty women was brought before the Savior Himself as judge and was indicted of her crimes. What would the Lord do? The law must be fulfilled, would grace stand helpless against the law? Would the law be powerless in the sight of mercy? Our Lord ignored their cries for punishment and stooped down and began to write. What He wrote we are not told but personally and symbolically I cannot help but be drawn to Exodus 31:18. Here He wrote the law with the finger of God on the table of stone. By any similar action He demonstrates that He was not there to destroy the law but to fulfill it. Next by this same or similar act He affirms His position as judge and convicts the accusers. The lawgiver Himself illuminated the darkness of the hearts of these men. He demanded that only the most holy hand could administer justice. And then He stooped down again. Here He is foreshadowing how He would save those who by the law were condemned to death. It was not that the law was ignored but when He stooped down again into the dirt He laid Himself between that law and this women. And rising again He freed this women commanding her (not suggesting) to go and sin no more. He never declared her not guilty, He did not reject the accusers acquisitions, He personally faced the unrighteousness, and because of His intervention no one was left that was able to condemn her.
Mat 5:17 “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.”
