11 November 3, 2013, john 8:1-11 Woman Caught In Adultery
1. WOMAN CAUGHT IN ADULTERY
JOHN 8: 1-11
NOVEMBER 3, 2013
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI
USA
2. November Bible Memory Verse:
Philippians 4:6-7
6 “Do not be anxious about
anything, but in every situation,
by prayer and petition, with
thanksgiving, present your
requests to God.
3. 7 And the peace of God, which
transcends all understanding,
will guard your hearts and your
minds in Christ
Jesus.” Philippians 4:6-7
5. John 8:1-11 NKJV
1 But
Jesus went to the
Mount of Olives.
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6. 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.
7. 3 Then
the scribes and
Pharisees brought to Him
a woman caught in
adultery. And when they
had set her in the midst,
8. 4 they
said to Him,
“Teacher, this woman was
caught in adultery, in the
very act.
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9. 5 Now
Moses, in the law,
commanded us that such
should be stoned.
But what do You say?”
10. 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,
11. as though He did not
hear.
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12. 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.”
13. 8 And
again
He stooped
down and
wrote on the
ground.
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14. 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
16. 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?”
17. 11 She
said,
“No one, Lord.”
And Jesus said to her,
“Neither do I condemn
you; go and sin no more.”
John 8:1-11 NKJV
18. The same Jesus Who said,
“Go and sin no more” is
the same Jesus Who
“remembers your sin no
more”…
IF
19. 9 If
we confess our sins,
He is faithful and just to
forgive us our sins and to
cleanse us from all
unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9 NKJV
20. Isaiah 1:18b NKJV
18b “Though your sins are
like scarlet, They shall be
as white as snow; (bleach)
Though they are red like
crimson,
They shall be as wool.”
28. For those who are
forgiven, He remembers
their sins no more but not
so for those who have not
asked for His forgiveness.
29. Jeremiah 17:1 NKJV
1“The sin of Judah is
written with a pen of iron;
With the point of a
diamond it is engraved
On the tablet of their
heart,
30. Jesus chooses to forget the
sins of those who choose
Him and, in addition,
He chooses to remember
those precious souls
whom the Father has
given Him.
31. Psalm 139:17-18a NKJV
17 How
precious also are
Your thoughts to me, O
God!
How great is the sum of
them!
32. 18a If
I should count them,
they would be more in
number than the sand;
Psalm 139:17-18a NKJV
33. Jeremiah 29:11 NKJV
11 For I know the thoughts
that I think toward you,
says the LORD, thoughts of
peace and not of evil, to
give you a future and a
hope.
34. Psalm 40:5b NKJV
5b Your thoughts toward
us cannot be recounted to
You in order; If I would
declare and speak of them,
they are more than can be
numbered.
54. The night before this John
8:1 passage, there had
been a meeting of the
Sanhedrin because people
were divided in their
opinion as to whether or
not Jesus was the Messiah.
63. Everyone had gone home
but not one had invited
Jesus to his house.
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64. John 8:1 NKJV
1 But
Jesus went to the
Mount of Olives.
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65. Jesus possibly went to
some booth pitched there
on the Mount of Olives
since it was
during the
feast of
tabernacles.
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66. That Jesus, the Creator of
all things, had no place of
His own to stay strikingly
illustrates the humiliation
and condescension of the
Incarnation—when He
“emptied Himself, taking
67. the form of a bondservant, and being made
in the likeness of men.
Being found in
appearance as a man, He
humbled Himself by
becoming obedient to the
68. point of death, even death
on a cross”
(Philippians 2:7-8).
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69. At His birth His mother
“wrapped Him in cloths,
and laid Him in a manger,
because there was no
room for them in the inn”
(Luke 2:7,
Revelation 3:20).
72. During His ministry He
said to a would-be
follower, “The foxes have
holes and the birds of the
air have nests, but the Son
of Man has nowhere to
lay His head” (Matt 8:20).
73. Jesus Christ, the King of
kings, was not given the
reception even the most
minor human dignitary
would have received
(John 1:11).
74. John 1:11 NKJV
11 He came to His own,
and His
own did
not
receive
Him.
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75. John 8:2 NKJV
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.
76. Our text notes that,
simply and without
fanfare, early the next
morning He came again
into the
temple
to teach.
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78. But such was the power of
His teaching that all the
people were coming to
Him.
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79. In His humility, the Lord
used no gimmicks to
market or promote
Himself, but offered His
teaching freely to all who
would listen.
80. In typical rabbinical style,
He simply sat down
somewhere in the temple
complex and began to
teach the people.
81. *Throughout Jesus'
ministry He exhibited this
kind of humility.
*This is in stark contrast to
His second coming, which
will be marked by His
exaltation and glory.
82. When He returns, He will
come “with power and
great glory” “on the
clouds of heaven” and
“every eye will see Him”.
86. John 8:3-4 NKJV
3 Then
the scribes and
Pharisees brought to Him
a woman caught in
adultery. And when they
had set her in the midst,
87. 4 they
said to Him,
“Teacher, this woman was
caught in adultery, in the
very act.
John 8:3-4 NKJV
88. *Suddenly, the Lord's
teaching was interrupted
by scribes and the
Pharisees.
*The scribes (lawyers)
were the experts in
interpreting the Law.
89. After God allowed
Babylon to destroy
Solomon’s Temple in 586
B.C., the central focus for
the Jew shifted from the
Temple (sacrifice) to
obedience to God’s Law
90. (Torah), since the Temple
no longer existed and
sacrifices were impossible.
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91. The Hebrews reasoned
that since their failure to
observe the Law of God
was what got them into
national disaster,
therefore, its remedy
would be careful
92. observance of the Law.
And with this shift, the
people’s focus and
attention changed from
being upon the priest
(previously performing
sacrifices), to the scribe
93. (the one who best knows
God’s commands).
So, with this swing in
spotlight came the rise of
new “experts in the
Mosaic Law”.
94. Scribes:
*These were the lawyers
whose primary job was to
copy the Scriptures.
*Their focus became the
details or the letter of the
law.
95. Since the scribes were the
copyists, they also became
the interpreters of the
sacred writings because
their occupation gave
them unusual familiarity
with the OT.
96. They transitioned from
mere copyists to teachers
of the Scriptures and
somewhat took the place
of the priest as teacher of
the Law.
98. The scribes were usually,
but not always, Pharisees,
who along with the
Sadducees, Zealots, and
Essenes were one of the
four major religious sects
in first-century Judaism.
100. They were especially
known for insisting that
the law of God be
observed as the scribes
interpreted it.
101. Though few in number
(about 6,000 at the time of
Herod the Great
according to the firstcentury Jewish historian
Josephus), the Pharisees
were the dominant
102. religious influence among
the Jewish people.
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103. With the exception of
Nicodemus, the Pharisees
are always hostile to Jesus
in John's gospel.
104. *The name, Pharisee,
implies “the separated
ones.”
*They lived in separate
communities, not
fellowshipping with
sinners.
105. Whenever the rabbis
taught something that
sounded good, or
profound, they kept it and
added it to what they
called “the tradition of the
elders.”
107. One popular Pharisee
myth is that at the same
time God gave the Law to
Moses, He gave him
another law, an oral law,
that wasn’t to be written
down, but passed along
108. from parent to child—and
that oral law is what the
Pharisees taught.
*Obviously that’s foolish,
but that’s how highly
Pharisees respected their
tradition.
109. So the scribes’ emphasis
was on the written law
whereas the Pharisees’
focus was on the oral law
(tradition).
111. Bringing with them a
woman caught in
adultery, the scribes and
Pharisees barged into the
crowd of people listening
to Jesus and set her in the
center of the court.
112. Addressing Him with
mock politeness as
“Teacher” (or “Rabbi”)
they exclaimed,
“This woman has been
caught in adultery, in the
very act.”
113. Why did they only bring
the woman if they were
caught in the act?
So there was an injustice
at the very onset, in their
own judgments.
114. John 8:5 NKJV
5 Now
Moses, in the law,
commanded us that such
should be stoned.
But what do You say?”
115. The last clause is
emphatic in the Greek,
and could be translated:
“What's your opinion on
this?”
116. Jesus Himself upheld the
Old Testament
condemnation of adultery
(Matthew 5:27; 19:18).
117. In fact, He made the
prohibition stronger,
condemning not only the
physical act, but also the
lustful attitude that
conceives it (Matt 5:28).
119. 28 but
I say to you that
everyone who looks at a
woman with lust for her
has already committed
adultery with her in his
heart.
Matthew 5:27-28
120. If justice was all they
sought, why bring the
woman to Jesus at all?
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121. *Why not try her in their
own courts, where such
cases would normally be
heard?
*Jesus was not a judge
(Luke 12:13-14) nor a
member of the Sanhedrin.
122. Luke 12:13-14
13 Someone
in the crowd
said to Him, “Teacher, tell
my brother to divide
the family inheritance with
me.”
123. 14 But
He said to
him, “Man, who
appointed Me a judge or
arbitrator over you?”
Luke 12:13-14
124. In Luke 12 he was
referring to His first
coming, however in
Matthew 25 He is talking
about His second coming
when He will be the
Judge!
125. Matthew 25:31-46 NKJV
31 “When
the Son of Man
comes in His glory, and all
the holy angels with Him,
then He will sit on the
throne of His glory.
126. 32 All
the nations will be
gathered before Him, and
He will separate them one
from another, as a
shepherd divides his
sheep from the goats.
127. 33 And
He will set the
sheep on His right hand,
but the goats on the left.
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128. 41 “Then
He will say to
those on the left hand,
‘Depart from Me, you
cursed, into the
everlasting fire prepared
for the devil and his
angels:
129. 42 for
I was hungry and
you gave Me no food; I
was thirsty and you gave
43 I was a
Me no drink;
stranger and you did not
take Me in, naked and
you did not clothe Me,
130. sick and in prison and you
did not visit Me.’
44 “Then they also will
answer Him, saying,
‘Lord, when did we see
You hungry or thirsty or a
stranger or naked or sick
131. or in prison, and did not
minister to You?’
45 Then He will answer
them, saying, ‘Assuredly, I
say to you, inasmuch as
you did not do it to one of
the least of these, you did
132. not do it to Me.’
46 And these will go away
into everlasting
punishment, but the
righteous into eternal
life.”
Matthew 25:31-46 NKJV
134. There was no legal
difficulty that would
necessitate consulting a
rabbi in this adultery case;
it was an open-and-shut
case.
135. They are right about the
Law of Moses; there is no
way of toning it down.
She should be stoned.
They are putting Him on
the horns of a dilemma.
Will He contradict Moses?
136. *The scribes and Pharisees
did this to trap Him.
*They didn't really want
to stone the woman.
They wanted to stone
Him!
137. If He objected to stoning
her, He would be guilty of
opposing the Mosaic Law,
and thus discredit His
claim to be the Messiah.
138. On the other hand, if He
agreed with her accusers
that she should be stoned,
His reputation for
compassion toward
sinners would be
destroyed.
139. Further, the Jewish
leaders could then report
Him to the Romans as
having instigated an
execution in defiance of
Roman authority
(John 18:31).
140. The challenge brought by
the scribes and Pharisees
also raised a deeper
issue—namely, how
divine justice and mercy
are to be harmonized.
141. God is holy and His “Law
is holy, and the
commandment is holy
and righteous and good”.
But the Law knows
nothing of forgiveness.
142. It declares, “The soul who
sins will die” because
“all who have sinned
under the Law will be
judged by the Law”
“for the Law brings about
wrath”.
143. How then does God
forgive sinners without
violating His holy law?
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144. *The answer is, through
the Lord Jesus Christ!
*His sacrificial death fully
satisfied the demands of
God's justice; as Paul
wrote to the Romans: “For
what the Law could not
145. do, weak as it was
through the flesh, God
did: sending His own Son
in the likeness of sinful
flesh and as an offering
for sin, He condemned sin
in the flesh” (Romans 8:3).
146. Those who put their faith
in Him are “justified as a
gift by His grace through
the redemption which is
in Christ Jesus; Whom
God displayed publicly as
a propitiation in His
147. blood through faith”,
because “He Himself bore
our sins in His body on
the cross, so that we
might die to sin and live
to righteousness; for by
His wounds you were
150. Because His sacrificial
death paid the penalty for
the sins of all who believe
in Him, God can “be just
and the Justifier of the one
who has faith in Jesus”
(Rom 3:26); in Him
151. “mercy and truth have
met together (at the cross);
righteousness (justice)
and peace have kissed
each other” (Psalm 85:10).
152. God poured out His
wrath against sin on Jesus
so He can pour out His
grace and mercy on those
who believe.
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153. Jesus was the lamb “slain
from the foundation of the
world” (Rev 13:8),
not only in the prophetic
sense, but also in the
sense of application.
162. *The dramatic scene in the
temple courtyard had
reached its climax.
*The woman, her sin
publicly exposed, was
humiliated, terrified, and
about to be stoned.
164. *The scribes and Pharisees
were jubilant, thinking
they had caught Jesus in
an impossible dilemma.
*The crowd was hushed,
watching intently to see
how Jesus would react.
165. *But He, for the moment,
surprisingly did nothing.
*Seemingly oblivious to
what was going on,
Jesus stoops down and
writes as though He
doesn't even hear them.
166. This is the only record
that we have of His
writing anything.
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167. He is the One about
Whom more books have
been written than about
any other person who has
ever lived; yet He never
wrote anything except
this in the sands of the
168. temple floor, which the
wind or the feet of the
crowd erased.
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169. John 8:7 NKJV
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.”
170. When they pressed Him
for an answer, Jesus
turned the conviction of
the prisoner upon the
prosecutors.
171. The scribes and Pharisees
were no doubt puzzled by
Jesus' silence.
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172. Perhaps they thought He
did not know how to
reply, so, thinking they
finally had impaled Him
on the horns of a
dilemma, the scribes and
Pharisees persisted.
173. Always the master of the
moment, Jesus remained
silent, allowing them to
reveal unmistakably their
hatred and hypocrisy as
they insistently pressed
their attack.
175. At last, He no doubt gave
His opponents
a piercing
glance,
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176. straightened up and said
to them, “He who is
without sin among you,
let him be the first to
throw a stone at her.”
The Lord's reply was
simple, yet profound.
177. It upheld the Law, since
He did not deny the
woman's guilt, and
broadened the Law's
power by exposing the
sins of the accusers.
178. It also avoided the charge
of instigating an execution
in violation of Roman
authority, since the Lord
put the responsibility
back on the accusers.
180. Jesus knew that according
to the Law, the witnesses
to a capital offense were
to be the first to throw
stones at the guilty person
(Deuteronomy 13:9; 17:7).
181. Deuteronomy 13:9
9 But you shall surely kill
him; your hand shall be
first against him to put
him to death, and
afterwards the hand of all
the people.
182. Deuteronomy 17:7
7 The hand of the witnesses
shall be first against him to
put him to death, and
afterward the hand of all
the people. So you shall
purge the evil from your
midst.
189. After making that
startling and unexpected
statement, He calmly
stooped down once more
and wrote on the ground,
and said nothing.
190. Arthur Pink suggests that
Christ wrote on the
ground with His finger
twice to remind them of
the two tablets of the Law,
written with the finger of
God.
192. Because the text does not
say what He wrote, some
speculate that the Lord
was acting out Jer 17:13:
“Those who depart from
Me shall be written in the
earth, because they have
193. forsaken the Lord, the
fountain of living waters”
(NKJV).
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194. Now, who had forsaken
the Lord? This woman?
Yes, she had.
The religious rulers?
Yes, they had too.
Their names shall be
written in the earth.
195. Jesus may have been
writing in the dust the
sins of the very men who
were accusing the woman.
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196. The normal Greek word
for to write is graphein;
but here the word used is
katagraphein, which can
mean to write down
a record against someone.
197. One of the meanings of
kata is against.
So in Job 13:26 Job says:
"Thou writest
(katagraphein) bitter
things against me."
198. Jesus may have been
linking their names with
sins of their past.
Perhaps He wrote the
name of a woman living
in Rome.
199. One old pious Pharisee
had had an affair in Rome
when he was a young
fellow.
His wife didn't know
about it; no one in
Jerusalem knew about it;
200. but our Lord knew that
old rascal.
*As He just wrote the
name of the woman, the
old Pharisee came over
and saw it -- and
suddenly remembered
201. that he had another
appointment.
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202. Perhaps one of the scribes
made regular trips to
Ephesus, a great sinning
place, to a certain address
over there which Jesus
wrote in the sand.
203. The scribe looked at it and
said, "Oh, my gracious!"
He left hurriedly.
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204. Another scribe may have
left a girl in Galilee who
was pregnant.
He didn't marry her, and
he didn't think anyone
knew.
205. Our Lord wrote the name
of the girl and the scribe's
name with it.
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206. "Thou hast set our
iniquities before thee, our
secret sins in the light of
thy countenance"
(Psalm 90:8).
Secret sin on earth is open
scandal in Heaven.
207. Better our sin
should shame us than
damn us, and be set in
order before us for our
conviction than for our
condemnation.
208. What Jesus wrote is
obviously not essential to
the story, however, since it
was not recorded; all of
these suggestions are only
speculation – we simply
do not know.
210. Perhaps His writing on
the ground frightened
them, as the
hand-writing
on the wall
frightened
Belshazzar.
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219. Hebrews 4:12 KJV
12 For
the word of God is
quick, and powerful, and
sharper than any two
edged sword, piercing
even to the dividing
220. asunder of soul and spirit,
and of the joints and
marrow, and is a discerner
of the thoughts and
intents of the heart.
Hebrews 4:12 KJV
221. It is folly for those that are
under convictions to
contrive how to shift off
their convictions, and to
get rid of them.
222. The scribes and Pharisees
had the wound opened,
and now they should have
been desirous to have it
searched, and then it might
have been healed, but this
was the thing they
223. dreaded and declined.
It is folly for those that are
under convictions to get
away from Jesus Christ, as
these here did, for He is
the only One that can heal
the wounds of conscience,
224. and speak peace to us.
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225. Those that are convicted
by their consciences will
be condemned by their
Judge, if they be not
justified by their
Redeemer; and will they
then go from Him?
226. To whom will they go?
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235. 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?”
236. 11 She
said,
“No one, Lord.”
And Jesus said to her,
“Neither do I condemn
you; go and sin no more.”
John 8:10-11 NKJV
240. She did not seek to make
her escape, though she had
opportunity for it; but her
prosecutors had appealed
unto Jesus, and to Him she
would go, on Him she
would wait for her doom.
241. Note; Those whose cause
is brought before our
Lord Jesus will never have
occasion to remove it into
any other court, for He is
the refuge of penitents.
243. The woman, it is likely,
stood trembling at the bar,
as one doubtful of the
issue.
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244. Christ was without sin,
and might cast the first
stone;
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245. but though none more
severe than He against
sin, for He is infinitely just
and holy, none more
compassionate than He to
sinners, for He is infinitely
gracious and merciful,
246. and this poor sinner finds
Him so, now that she
stands upon her
deliverance.
248. Not but that Christ knew
where they were; but He
asked, that He might
shame them, who
declined His judgment,
and encourage her who
resolved to abide by it.
249. The Apostle Paul's
challenge is like this;
Who shall lay any thing to
the charge of God's elect?
Where are those their
accusers?
250. The accuser of the
brethren shall be cast out,
and all indictments legally
and regularly quashed.
252. Secondly;
They do not appear when
the question is asked:
Hath no man condemned
thee?
She said, No man, Lord.
253. She speaks respectfully to
Christ, calls Him Lord, but is
silent concerning her
prosecutors, says nothing in
answer to that question
which concerned them,
Where are those thine
accusers?
254. She does not triumph in
their retreat nor insult
over them as witnesses
against themselves, not
against her.
255. If we hope to be forgiven
by our Judge, we must
forgive our accusers; and
if their accusations, how
invidious so ever, were
the happy occasion of
awakening our
256. consciences, we may
easily forgive them this
wrong.
But she answered the
question which concerned
herself, Has no man
condemned thee?
257. True penitents find it
enough to give an account
of themselves to God, and
will not undertake to give
an account of other
people.
258. So here's a woman caught
in the act of a capital sin
according to the Mosaic
Law, but Jesus is saying to
her,
"I don't condemn you."
259. Because He didn't come to
condemn, He came to
save. And there He
demonstrated His
glorious ministry: seeking
and saving that which
was lost.
260. She didn't need to be
condemned, she needed
to be saved.
We don't need to be
condemned, we need to
be saved!
261. And Jesus did not
condemn the sinner.
To this woman He said,
"Neither do I condemn
you. Just go and sin no
more."
263. This woman was guilty of
sin, and according to the
Law of Moses an
adulteress was to be put
to death.
Is Jesus reversing the
Mosaic system? No.
264. He is placing His Cross
between that woman and
her sin.
This One Who is the Son
of the virgin, Who
Himself was under a
cloud all of His life, is
265. going to the Cross to pay
the penalty for even the
sin of this woman.
He did not come into the
world to condemn the
world.
266. He did not come to judge
this woman.
He came into the world
the first time to be a
Savior!
267. This account paints a
marvelous picture of the
Lord Jesus Christ, Whose
gracious humility, infinite
wisdom, convicting speech,
and tender forgiveness are its
central themes.