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It’s weird that this woman is dragged to Jesus for Him to pronounce judgement on her publicly, by a crowd of people who were far from perfect. The woman must have been shivering in shame and guilt when Jesus takes the focus off of her by bending down and writing something on the ground. He asked that the sinless people in the crowd begin stoning her. One by one the people snuck out, leaving just the woman there. Jesus acquits her but he doesn’t do it without a condition attached- “Go and leave your life of sin”.
Jesus was the epitome of grace and truth. He did not condemn anyone but he did not turn away from convicting them. The Holy Spirit does the same thing today. The Holy Spirit will also keep us from being hypocritical and judgemental by alerting us to those sinful tendencies and bringing us to true repentance.
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
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 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.”
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