John 8:1-11

Jesus was not talking to a group of unbelievers He was talking to believers. We can safely conclude that He was talking to all of us.

We are ALL sinners….we are ALL in need of a Savior…..Jesus came to save sinners!

Judge not for in the manner you judge you will be judged. Above all Christ taught us a New Covenant of Love for God first and then for all of His creation. His love covers a multitude of sins…ours. Those who have been forgiven the most should have even more love, forgiveness and compassion for others.

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.) In the Greek text, the pronoun You is emphatic. 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.

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.”

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. 

Leviticus 20:10

⁵⁶ For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives but to save them.” And they went to another village. 

Luke 9:56

¹⁷For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 

John 3:17