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John 8 New Living Translation (NLT)
A Woman Caught in Adultery


8 Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives, 2 but early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them.3 As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd.


4 “Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of adultery.5 The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?”


6 They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger. 7 They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!” 8 Then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust.


9 When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman.10 Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?”


11 “No, Lord,” she said.


And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and sin no more.”


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Notes:

Jesus was the only one who was pure and holy in the crowd. Though Jesus had the right to judge the woman, he stayed with her and told her to go and sin no more.

Jesus has the same message today to you and me. He is telling us to go in this life trusting and living in His holiness.

The woman might think of not going just as what Jesus told her. But why would the woman stay there? Would she wait for Jesus to leave her and see the accusers again? If that happened to me, I would go with Jesus. Don't we go with someone whom we trust?

As we decide to follow and go with Jesus, we will experience living in righteousness and holiness.



Prayer:

Lord, please help me to live in your righteousness each day. With my weaknesses, I would never be able to overcome them. But by your love, I can survive every hardship I face every day.