John 8:1-11

No sin, no person, is above God’s mercy and forgiveness. 

Jesus ushered in the New Covenant.  A new and everlasting covenant between God and the believers in Jesus Christ. The letter of the law…killed. Jesus came to give life in abundance and eternal. The new parameters give mercy and grace to those who trust in God to do what they cannot. I think what Jesus was writing was “LOVE”.

Be fair in judgement, forgive all who ask, know that we are all sinners in need of God’s mercy…always be humble!

Micah 6:8 

He has shown you, O man, what is good;

And what does the Lord require of you

But to do justly,

To love mercy,

And to walk humbly with your God?

Jesus signals that His life represents God’s reign being established in a new way.

The biblical law prescribed death for both partners involved in an adulterous relationship. The religious authorities’ condemnation is unjustly selective since her partner has apparently been let off. What Jesus writes is unknown. It appears to prompt the leaders’ later conviction of conscience perhaps by reminding them of their own sinfulness or of the law’s higher considerations (mercy and compassion. Jesus makes the case that no one is without sin other than God, and thus no one is permitted to pass judgment by any authority other than what God has given them. Only God has a pure motive. Faithllife Bible.

Because the Feast of Tabernacles had concluded the day before, many visitors were still in Jerusalem. Attracted by the appearance of a noted rabbi, a crowd rapidly gathered. Teachers in ancient Israel sat when they taught. Jesus assumed the position of an authoritative teacher.

Abruptly bringing the adulterous woman into the midst of the proceedings was a rude disruption. The Pharisees were bent on confounding Jesus.

Stoning was specified in certain cases of adultery though not all. (It is not clear why the authorities intended to punish the woman but not the man.) The religious leaders were trying to trap Jesus into saying something that was contrary to the Law. Sin no more implies that Jesus forgave her. He did not condemn her, but neither did He condone her sin. NKJ Bible.

John 8:1-11

8 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2 Now early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and taught them. 3 Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, 4 they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?” 6 This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear.

7 So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.” 8 And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. 9 Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 10 When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, “Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?”

11 She said, “No one, Lord.”

And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.”

Leviticus 20:10 | ‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress, shall surely be put to death.

Deuteronomy 17:7 | The hands of the witnesses shall be the first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 22:22 | “If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then both of them shall die—the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; so you shall put away the evil from Israel.

Deuteronomy 22:23 | “If a young woman who is a virgin is betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her,

Deuteronomy 22:24 | then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he humbled his neighbor’s wife; so you shall put away the evil from among you.