"At dawn Jesus 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, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the
first to throw a stone at her.” Again he stooped down and wrote in the sand.
"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."
John 8:1-11
About one year ago, bloggers,
visitors and readers of Homeless In America were asked to, in their opinion,
fill in the blanks of the above story.
Here is the question they responded to:
"Jesus defended his divine mercy
for sinners when he wrote in the sand protecting the woman caught in adultery
from certain angry and violent self-righteous church leaders of his day. In
your opinion, what do you think he wrote?"
81% responded that quite possibly
Jesus wrote in the sand a combination of two things. First, the secret sins of the priests and the
Pharisees. Second, a dividing line
between the self-righteous church leaders on one side and those that stood for
mercy on the other side.
19% responded that quite possibly
Jesus wrote neither. More than likely, he
wrote something else that we are not aware of since it is omitted from the
story.
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