Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why didn't you bring HIM in?"
"No one ever spoke the way this man does," the guards declared.
"You mean HE has deceived you also?" the Pharisees retorted. "Has any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in HIM? No! But this mob that knows nothing of the law--there is a curse on them."
Nicodemus, who had gone to JESUS earlier and who was one of their own number, asked, "Does our law condemn anyone without first hearing him to find out what he is doing?"
They replied, "Are you from Galilee, too? Look into it, and you will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee."
Then each went to his own home.
But JESUS went to the Mount of Olives. At dawn HE appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around HIM, and HE sat down to teach them. The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to JESUS, "TEACHER, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do YOU say?" 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. 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." Again HE stooped down and wrote on the ground.
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. JESUS straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
"No one, sir," she said.
"Then neither do I condemn you," JESUS declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."
The Gospel of John: chapter 7, verses 45 - 52 & chapter 8, verses 1 - 11
"No one ever spoke the way this man does," the guards declared.
"You mean HE has deceived you also?" the Pharisees retorted. "Has any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in HIM? No! But this mob that knows nothing of the law--there is a curse on them."
Nicodemus, who had gone to JESUS earlier and who was one of their own number, asked, "Does our law condemn anyone without first hearing him to find out what he is doing?"
They replied, "Are you from Galilee, too? Look into it, and you will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee."
Then each went to his own home.
But JESUS went to the Mount of Olives. At dawn HE appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around HIM, and HE sat down to teach them. The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to JESUS, "TEACHER, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do YOU say?" 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. 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." Again HE stooped down and wrote on the ground.
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. JESUS straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
"No one, sir," she said.
"Then neither do I condemn you," JESUS declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."
The Gospel of John: chapter 7, verses 45 - 52 & chapter 8, verses 1 - 11
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