John 8:1-11

"Each of the Pharisees 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."

3  Points to Ponder

*  Before his day in the temple, Jesus went to his quiet place.  He went to the Mount of Olives.  To get rest, to get away from everyone, to get strength from prayer with his Father, to prepare himself for the next day and the next  encounter with the Pharisees.

*  We see how Jesus speaks carefully to the Pharisees.  He does not have to use many words to get his point across.  

*  Then we see how Jesus speak to the adulteress woman, an ordinary person with a public sin.  Jesus make 2 brief points.  I do not condemn you, &  leave your life of sin.