The Woman Caught in Adultery
John 7:53-8:11
Rod Thom
The Woman Caught in Adultery
John 7:53 Then they all went home,
[The earliest manuscripts and many other
ancient witnesses do not have John 7:53—8:11.
A few manuscripts include these verses, wholly
or in part, after John 7:36, John 21:25, Luke
21:38 or Luke 24:53.]
The Woman Caught in Adultery
John 8:1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple
courts, where all the people gathered around
him, and he sat down to teach them.
The Woman Caught in Adultery
3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees
brought in a woman caught in adultery.
The 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?”
The Woman Caught in Adultery
6 They were using this question as a trap, in
order to have a basis for accusing him.
The Woman Caught in Adultery
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the
ground with his finger.
The Woman Caught in Adultery
7 When they kept on questioning him, he
straightened up and said to them, “Let any one
of you who is without sin be the first to throw a
stone at her.” 8 Again he stooped down and
wrote on the ground.
The Woman Caught in Adultery
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.
The Woman Caught in Adultery
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.”
Romans 8 there is now no condemnation for those
who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ
Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set
you[a] free from the law of sin and death. 3 For
what the law was powerless to do because it was
weakened by the flesh,[b] God did by sending his
own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin
offering.[c] And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4
in order that the righteous requirement of the law
might be fully met in us, who do not live according
to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Communion is a unique time for
Christ followers to celebrate and
remember Jesus together.
If you love Christ we invite you to join
us in partaking of the bread and juice
as Jesus commanded us to do.
The bread and juice represent the
body and blood of Christ sacrificially
given for you. Allow them to speak to
you of Christ's love and prayerfully
renew your commitment to Live for
Him.
We encourage you to thoughtfully and
prayerfully eat and drink in memory of
Christ in your own time or as the
leader may direct.