One of my favorite passages in the Gospels.
Jesus went to the Mount of
Olives.
But early in the morning
he arrived again in the temple area,
and all the people started
coming to him,
and he sat down and taught
them.
Then the scribes and the
Pharisees brought a woman
who had been caught in
adultery
and made her stand in the
middle.
They said to him,
“Teacher, this woman was
caught
in the very act of
committing adultery.
Now in the law, Moses
commanded us to stone such women.
So what do you say?”
They said this to test
him,
so that they could have
some charge to bring against him.
Jesus bent down and began
to write on the ground with his finger.
But when they continued
asking him,
he straightened up and
said to them,
“Let the one among you who
is without sin
be the first to throw a
stone at her.”
Again he bent down and
wrote on the ground.
And in response, they went
away one by one,
beginning with the elders.
So he was left alone with
the woman before him.
Then Jesus straightened up
and said to her,
“Woman, where are they?
Has no one condemned you?”
She replied, “No one,
sir.”
Then Jesus said, “Neither
do I condemn you.
Go, and from now on do not
sin any more.”
-Jn 8:1-11
Again from Franco Zefferlli’s Jesus of Nazareth.
And again I can find no better explanation of
the passage than from Brant Pitre. This
is just superb.
Go and sin no more.
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